Indeed, after the war, the Allies joined their former enemies in promoting a new homogenizing, nation-building effort that proceeded from the very presumption underlying Nazi ideology. The basis of Nazi thought, unrepudiated at Nuremberg, was that Jews constituted a nation foreign in Europe. The same presumption is foundational to Zionism. Postwar Germans, no less than Americans and Britons, could readily embrace the idea that Israel was the home of the Jews, separate from Germany and Europe at large. The establishment of the state of Israel was the solution to the Jewish question in Europe.
