Which phrase from the paragraph best supports the central idea that the holocaust was motivated by prejudice and organized by the government?

a) “holocaust is a word of greek origin meaning ‘sacrifice by fire.’” (paragraph 1)

b) “between two and three million soviet prisoners of war were murdered or died of starvation, disease, neglect, or maltreatment” (paragraph 5)

c) “although jews, whom the nazis deemed a priority danger to germany, were the primary victims of nazi racism, other victims included some 200,000 roma” (paragraph 4)

d) “the nazis, who came to power in germany in january 1933, believed that germans were 'racially superior' and that the jews, deemed 'inferior,' were an alien threat” (paragraph 1)