Go truly look into it. The whole Aryan purity thing didn't play out in practice. They rounded up certain "suspect races" but in the end it was mostly economics that drove who they rounded up and who they didn't. Many of the Jewish populations they rounded up were rounded up for their wealth initially, and it helped that Jews were already pretty well hated. Anti-Semitics were all the rage at the time, kind of like hating black people was big in America. It's actually not surprising Germany, or any of Europe, eventually got an anti-Semite as a leader, England, Germany, France and Italy all had issues with anti-jewish sentiment. After Germany got royally screwed following WWI, much of the country and continent blamed Jews for their issues, and the Depression. In Germany there was not nearly the ire against blacks as there was against Jews and gypsies and you'll find that not nearly as many blacks were shipped off to camp. There are many first hand accounts from blacks in Germany during the Third Reich and they report being treated better than American blacks. The SS was given certain instructions against them, but they went largely unfollowed because they were so few in number and not concentrated so no one ever really cared, Hitler included. They just ignored them. Mostly it was Jews, gypsies and communists who were done in en masse. The reason America framed it as racial purity is because A) we kind of pushed the same crap and B) it made the Nazi's seemed more ideologically evil, whereas they were more or less imperialist a**holes, but going that route blurs the line to much with America.
Most of what you learn about World War II is propaganda. Burning of the Reichstagg wasn't the Nazis. It's funny, we readily accept a Nazi conspiracy but can explain why the 9/11 conspiracy is hogwash. Same thing, the Reichstagg wasn't some conspiracy, what happened actually happened and it was the politically opportunistic Hitler who used it to his advantage. Even in history class. Kind of like how they never teach the Mexican War as illegal and just a land grab, or how they never teach Andrew Jackson like the American Hitler. It forgives us for our sins so we can condemn the losers. I'm not defending Hitler or being anti-Semitic, but their racial double standards were not ours and that may or may not be the only difference. We did kill a lot of slaves and blacks that we *failed* to document, we massacred the Indians and cooked the books on that as well. One of the reasons Nazi's official kill count is so disputed is Germany took pains to cover their tracks, because when you're ethically cleansing an area you don't exactly want to leave a whole lot of evidence. That's basically what Hitler was doing: getting rid of political and economic opposition. Jews were never going to support the Nazis, for obvious reasons, so they piggybacked existing prejudices against them. Which is what we did/do as well when racist politicians ran to high office in our country. I think perhaps our term limits and style of Government and gridlock prevent us from having the methodical precision of the Nazis.
But no, a lot of the blind racism we attribute to Hitler is trying to paint him as *worse* than our racists. Kind of like saying "hating black people is bad but he hates Jews TOO", which is really ironic because much of the segregated South wanted to oust Catholics and Jews and a few other groups as well, it wasn't always just about black people, although they focused heavily on black people.
