Quote:I'm fairly certain the Jews who were abused, tortured and murdered in Germany weren't selected for their race. 

 

They were selected because they were Jews, whether they were religious or not. The Nazis believed the Aryan race to be pure, and considered marriage to anyone not Aryan to be traitors. When they identified Jews they did so from physical appearance and family lineage as much as where a person worshiped. If a person had both an Aryan and Jewish parent, the person was considered a Jew. It absolutely had everything to do with race.

 

The definition of "race" includes more than just common skin color, physical features or historical lineage, however very few Jews slaughtered in the Holocaust were converts, they were born Jews.

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