They did not quit killing the Jews until the last day of the war.
By the issue that it was an action of Nazis against Jews.
All people everywhere want to avoid persecution by anybody.
After the downfall of the Nazis, when persecution of the Jews in Germany ceased. (Note capital letters)
Jews hid in order to avoid deportation to death camps in Eastern Europe.
By the issue that it was an action of Nazis against Jews.
Persecution of the Jews had happened before - though without the Nazis' ideoloical baggage, but genocide of the Jews was new. The thoroughness and fanaticism of it were also new.
Homosexuals, Jews mainly, mentily disabled, POW (Prisoners of War),
The people responsible for the persecution were removed from places of power that enabled them to commint the persecution.
There were many groups targeted for persecution by the Nazis. But the group that was hardest targeted and suffered a greater proportion of deaths than even the Jews were the Gypsies.
The Nazis' treatment of the Jews included 'bullying' in the sense of persecution or active and persistent harassment, but overall, what the Nazis did to the Jews in areas under their control was vastly worse than bullying.
He blamed Jews for Germany's problems and encouraged Germans to join the Nazis in attacking Jews.
Actually, few people expected the horrors which, at the end of the war, became clear that had happened. It was clear that there was persecution against Jews, but the mass exterminations were not generally known until after the Germans were defeated.