Nazi anti-Semitism as Shared Psychosis
(Daniel Goldhagen: The "shared scribes of an insane asylum)."
Joseph Goebbels, essay of November 16, 1941,
“The Jews are Guilty”
“Every Jew is our enemy in this historic struggle, whether he vegetates in a Polish ghetto or carries on his parasitic existence in Berlin or Hamburg or blows the trumpets of war in New York or Washington. All Jews by virtue of their birth and their race are part of an international conspiracy against National Socialist Germany. They want its defeat and annihilation, and do all in their power to bring it about.”

 
DANIEL GOLDHAGEN: The Nazis were in the grip of a “hallucinatory ideology.” Their writings about Jews were so divorced from reality that anyone reading them might conclude that they were the product of the “collective scribes of an insane asylum.”