I’ve often pondered why Nazism was so hostile to Judaism.
The official history books would have us believe it was a personal vendetta on Hitler’s part. This does seem to be a somewhat extreme grudge to hold bearing in mind its ultimate consequences. We’ve all disliked individual people but never wished for the extermination of everyone even vaguely connected by race, creed or religion to them.

It has always seemed a flimsy and tenuous rationale.

The Nazis believed in Germanic/Nordic genetic supremacy and considered themselves the ‘Ubermensch’ the over people, the natural rulers of other, ‘inferior’ races. Oddly, a fundamental tenet of Judaism is that the Jews are ‘God’s chosen people’, are the world’s only true humans and that non-Jews are ‘Goyim’ or less than human.

How far a stretch of logic is it to suggest that perhaps the Nazi extermination of the Jews was really motivated by the need to eliminate an ideological competitor?

Two competing ‘Ubermensch’s’ occupying the same geographical time and space would be abhorrent to the neat and tidy mindset of Germans. That Judaism represented religious ideological belief in self-supremacy and Nazism the scientifically informed belief in the same cannot be ignored.

The action’s of the Nazis in this context, that of the scientific new world crushing the superstitious old, seems to make more sense.

As a non-religious person with a healthy scepticism about science, I find the idea of the ‘Ubermensch’ in whatever form abhorrent.

Look to the present-day US and Israel for contemporary expression of the Ubermensch mentality, this time based on a mix of both religion (Christianity/Judaism) and science, heavily laced with ideas of cultural supremacy.

The US and its lackeys are the new Nazis.

In any case those who will decide to press the neutron bomb button do not care about religion.
They know that God is a human invention.