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"When the Nazis leaders, in private conversations, office memos, or public statements, drew a connection between the Jews and World War II, they were referring to World War II and the Holocaust taken together as one apocalyptic battle. They did not limit the meaning of their war against International Jewry to the Final Solution.
"Instead, they viewed the Final Solution public, as a necessary campaign of retaliation in the context of a broader war of defense waged against international Jewry, world Jewry, and less frequently “the Jews.” In the minds and public assertions of Nazis leaders, they were fighting a single war that pitted Germany and its allies against a colossal international conspiracy of nonequals driven by Jewish figures working behind the scenes, while their non-Jewish accomplices, primarily the Allies, were the enemy's public façade.
"The Nazis narrative attributed enormous autonomy and power to the Jews, while denying those attributes to the nominal leaders of the most powerful nations in the world, Franklin Roosevelt, Winston Churchill, and Joseph Stalin, whom it identified as the Jews “puppets, accomplices, stooges, and servants.”
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