The nazis and people who agreed with them wanted to protect the German community from "inferior" races. Are there other examples in history or literature in which groups of people murdered innocent people in the name of "protecting" themselves? How are these examples similar to or different from the Holocaust?
Yes there are. An example is the killing of native Indians in the European colonization of the Americas.
Explanation:
The native Indians were seen as blood thirsty savages by the settling Europeans; on them, their families and their agricultural products. To protect themselves as they would see it, they murdered millions of native Indians.
