15) while antisemites, on the contrary, can claim direct and unbroken lineage through space and time from the Middle Ages.Arendt further criticizes Cohn for asserting that "the mass of the German population was never truly fanaticized against the Jews" and that their extermination "was organized and in the main carried out by the professionals of the SD and the SS," bodies that "did not by any means represent a typical cross-section of German society" (pp.