Sentence:  But if the Trial did not expose the special Nazi <WSD>mania</WSD> so deadly to Jews as well as to anyone upon whom it happened to light , neither did it warn very effectively against the ordinary anti-Semitism of which the Nazis made such effective use in Germany and wherever else they could find it . 
Meaning of the word marked with <WSD> tags:  an irrational but irresistible motive for a belief or action