How did Nazi racial ideology portray Jewish people?

Nazi racial ideology fundamentally transformed antisemitism by defining Jewish people not by their religious beliefs, but by an immutable biological identity. The Nazis characterized Jews as Untermenschen (subhumans) and a dangerous, existential threat to the German people, often describing them as a "cancer" that polluted the German bloodstream.1234

This ideology perceived Jewishness as a race struggling for world domination, fundamentally opposed to the "Aryan race," which the Nazis exalted as the sole creative element of humanity. By framing the Jewish presence as a biological danger, the Nazis argued that the elimination of the Jewish people was essential for the purification, salvation, and preservation of the German Volk (people).143

This racialized hatred was codified into law through measures like the Nürnberg Laws, which stripped Jews of citizenship and prohibited marriage or sexual relations between Jews and those of "German or kindred blood". Ultimately, this state-sponsored ideology provided the framework for the Holocaust, the systematic, genocidal attempt to eradicate the Jewish people from the human race.2413