Dude, Israel was born after WW2. The Jews were seen as the few who controlled everything and had all the wealth.
That's not what the Nazis thought of jews, Israel didn't even exist by then and most European jews had been there for centuries.
Sorry, I misspoke, but you're also severely over-simplifying. The actual nation of Israel didn't yet exist, but if you read actual documents the German Nazis actually wrote they talk at great length about Jewish people not being German, but Middle Eastern. They talk about them as foreign agents. Yes, they had been there for some time, which is why Hitler and his top generals spoke about them as being invading forces that had been chipping away at German resources for quite some time, stealing their economy out from under them. (They also reached out to the powers in control of Jerusalem at one point and said they wanted to transport their Jewish prisoners there, to expel them forcibly from the country, but soon abandoned those efforts entirely because the war was already well underway and England controlled that part of the waters.)
They were also racially motivated, because they considered Jewish people to be another race. Hitler read the works of a highly celebrated (at the time) American author -- I'm blanking on the name -- who said that there is a racial hierarchy with white people at the top, Asian people next, and black people on the bottom. Hitler then decided that Jewish people were even further below that, and therefor less human and easier to kill without guilt. Obviously he chose Jewish people to find ways to single out and Other because of the extreme economic unrest at the time (also a huge motivating factor in recruitment for ISIS) and how easy he thought it was to place blame on them as people who did work in trade and similar industries which were still turning a considerable profit. (There are also the factors of Hitler's personal dislike for Jewish styles of art and his failure as an artist, but that's a digression.)
But again, none of those factors were actual religious or faith based differences. It was only when it came time to convince the general public that these people were different and Other -- theoretically making them easier to kill -- that the propaganda began to focus on more social factors.
It was never
really about religion. It was about poverty and nationalism, at least for those with power and control. Religious or social factors are just the easiest ways to control the people you intend to let die to further your cause.
edit: And if you read some of the things said by generals of al-Qaeda, they similarly talk about religious or social differences far less often, except as a means of recruitment and manipulation. Their focus was always more about economic threats and western attacks that had already taken place. It's much easier to motivate people once they feel they are being oppressed by someone else, and religion is an easy tool to use to create a sort of fervor, but you never see the people at the top martyring themselves in the same way as those they have indoctrinated.
