Hi there, thanks for sharing your thoughts. The reason it’s offensive is because Hitler didn’t go “Ah, anyone who is religiously Jewish should be murdered.” It wasn’t about what they were practicing, or what they believed. It was because they were ethnically Jewish. If their parents were Jewish, or even just grandparents, you were considered “untermensch”- subhuman. You couldn’t convert your way out of it. For centuries, Jewish people have been told to blend in, just convert, just drop the Hebrew, the Yiddish, the culture, the Shabbat, the Shul, just dress like everyone else, just integrate, and then they won’t be persecuted. Because it was “their fault” for not integrating: that’s why they were being harassed, murdered and persecuted in Europe, right? They just didn’t tow the line? Wrong. This is a total, complete lie. Even if you converted, you were still “a Jew” in European sentimentality for centuries. Disraeli, despite being a committed Christian born in England, was seen as a “Jew”. Einstein, despite his fervent identity as a secular scientist, was regarded as “A Jew”. The victims of the holocaust similarly could not just blend in, disappear, convert. It wasn’t their fault. The Holocaust wasn’t just another jolly attempt to force a minority group to accept Christianity. It was the attempt to eliminate an ethnicity. That’s why it’s offensive to say the holocaust was about religion: it wasn’t. Himmler didn’t get a toss if you were an atheist or a Hindu. He sent six million Jews to their deaths. For their race.