Sentence:  In other words , the promulgators of the murder plan made clear that physically exterminating the Jews was but an extension of the anti-Semitic measures already operating in every phase of German life , and that the new conspiracy counted on the general <WSD>anti-Semitism</WSD> that had made those measures effective , as a readiness for murder . 
Meaning of the word marked with <WSD> tags:  the intense dislike for and prejudice against Jewish people