This seems a great time to clear the Whig Historian Interpretation air about trying to isolate Germany as the only race hatred European "race".
Here is a sniff, smell test, of the truth:
The Germans had a lot of close allies and heartfelt sympathizers. Long list.
Their targets were not solely, or even primarily, Jews and gypsies.
Their main enemies of race hatred were often each other.
They agreed about few things in this regard.
But one of the very few things they did agree on:
Hatred of the Slavs as a civilization, and a "race".
WWI had started out very much, beneath the surface, as Western Europe against the Eastern Slavs, with the shooting in Sarajevo.
This is leaving aside Muslims and negroes, who were universally considered, religiously and racially, hereditary enemy infidels, and colored subhuman savages.
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