It is reflected in the belief of a Warsaw cabbie that the Jews control all the Polish banks. It is reflected in the spontaneously erected crosses at Auschwitz. The Dehumanization of the Jews was a factor mostly responsible for the Holocaust and the totalitarity of the destruction. Because the Poles were never demonized, the Jews were. Covering under the mantle of strict Vatican neutrality, the Pope refused to condemn Hitler's atrocities, despite the fact that in 1940 he broke this policy by expressing concern over the German violation of the neutrality of Belgium and Holland.
Demonization is the answer.
Demonization was also the cause of the abandonment of the Jews by the Roosevelt administration. By this time, Roosevelt knew nearly everything about these atrocities. Roosevelt had been informed over the years by American diplomats and American press reports about the Jewish condition in Europe. Yet at Casablanca, Roosevelt amazingly seemed to sympathize with Nazi discrimination against Jews. He proposed to Generals Nogu' s and Giraud that the French government in North Africa discriminate against the Jews of French North Africa just as Hitler had done in Germany before the war.