Under all the rhetorical spite, the Nazi’s fundamental basis for their anti-Semitism was pure retaliation. They wanted the Jews to suffer for what they had done, to share – like any good German patriot should willingly do – the decade of agony that tormented the nation after World War I.
Germans starved to death, froze to death – watched their families and children starve and wither away. The disabled war veterans suffered the worst, eight million of them – dying a horrific, prolonged death as gruesome as that suffered by any concentration camp victim.
Mercifully, the Nazis gave concentration camp inmates a way to survive – to work, making basic cooking utensils and parts for military armaments. But the Jews were only skilled as storekeepers and bookkeepers, not as craftsmen, however rudimentary.
In the big pain ledger tally kept in heaven (or maybe in hell), by the end of World War II, the Jews had suffered precisely for what the entire German nation had experienced in the years after World War I, no more and no less.