Hitler called Jews the "demon of the disintegration of peoples;" symbol of the "unceasing destruction of their lives." The term "disintegration" occurred repeatedly in Hitler’s speeches. The German word Zersetzung is widely used in chemistry and biology meaning "decomposition," "decay," "putrefaction." When used in relation to Jews, the word meant that they worked toward destruction of all "genuine values," of everything that was sacred to the Germans--Germanic traditions, culture, their position in the world, patriotism, and patriotic symbols.
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Jews as the death instinct within the German body politic: Freud’s depiction of the struggle taking place within organisms is identical to Hitler’s description of the struggle occurring within the German body politic. Freud described the death instinct as a force working to “undo connections” and “disintegrate the cellular being;” Hitler described Jews as “no element of organization,” but rather a “disintegrator of peoples” whose presence caused the “falling to pieces of the organic structure of the nation.” Where Freud understood the death instinct as a force working to “dissolve living units and bring them back to their inorganic states,” Hitler divined a process within the nation that threatened to “dissolve the German people into its basic elements.”
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Goebbels called Jews the “incarnation of that destructive drive which in these terrible years rages in the enemies' warfare against everything we consider noble, beautiful and worth preserving." Rage against the Jew was righteous anger toward those who seemed to mock the idea of devotion, loyalty to Germany. Hitler said, "We are fanatic in our love for our people. We can go as loyally as a dog with those who share our sincerity, but we will pursue with fanatic hatred the man who believes that he can play tricks with this love of ours."

The Jew constituted negation of Nazi faith, the antithesis of German ideals. According to Goebbels, "The creative, constructive philosophy of National Socialism with its idealistic goals is opposed to the Jewish philosophy of materialism and individualism."  Hitler's Official Programme published in 1927 stated that "Marxists, Capitalists and the leaders of our public life all worship the same god--Individualism. Personal interest is the sole incentive." 

The primal "sin" was individualism, equated with selfishness. The Final Solution was undertaken to demonstrate that this sin would be severely punished; it was impossible to evade the all-embracing community. No person was exempt from the obligation to sacrifice for Germany; to die for the country. The Holocaust was a perverted version of "dying for Germany."

German history texts persistently hammered out the theme that Jews opposed virtues such as loyalty, manliness, and the sense of sacrifice, each of which according to the "mistaken Jewish teaching" was unmodern, humorous. The plight of Germany before the Nazis came to power was blamed on the Jews: "In the newspapers, in books, in film, on radio they made fun of and undermined what was sacred to us Germans." Hitler proclaimed that the Jew was the “ferment of decomposition in peoples," which meant that the Jew “destroys and must destroy" because he completely "lacks the conception of an activity which builds up the life of the community."