Nazi Germany - The Foreign Plot Is Now Coming From Inside the House

Even when Hitler came to power, it was not a foregone conclusion that Nazi Germany would become the kind of totalitarian state. The pivot from left wingers as enemies to Jews and other internal enemies was a key part of why the Holocaust came to pass. While Reinhard was surely an anti-Semite by this period, he did this for fundamentally careerist reasons. If the Reich's new enemies were elusive racial and religious enemies, the police were clearly ill-equipped to handle such a threat.