How does "The Lottery" by Shirley Jackson relate to the Holocaust?

Another way of looking at "The Lottery" in relation to the Holocaust is to consider the phenomenon of how ignorance and blind obedience to what a particular group values, despite its clear absence of moral underpinnings, propels people to acts of barbarity.
Though Jackson never explicitly explains what the ritual stoning of a randomly-chosen citizen is thought to accomplish, it is reasonable to infer that it is somehow linked to the harvest or in some way benefits the town. If that is indeed the case, then it is a superstitious and illogical belief that no one has the will or strength of character to effectively challenge. It is said that Nazis hated Jews for reasons that don't lend themselves to logic; among them, their belief that Aryans were biologically superior to Jews.
Jackson observes that, left unchallenged, willful ignorance and blind obedience to unexamined traditional beliefs can unleash indefensible destruction of human lives.

One of the themes explored throughout Shirley Jackson's short story "The Lottery" concerns the psychology behind mass cruelty and violence, which is depicted by the community members' cavalier, malicious attitude toward the unlucky winner of the lottery. Shirley Jackson illustrates how typical, friendly citizens are capable of atrocious acts of cruelty at any moment in time. The shocking image of small-town community members stoning one of their fellow citizens without remorse reveals humanity's primitive, savage nature and suggests that humans are capable of horrific acts of violence when they are part of a group which is influenced by mob mentality. The same psychology of mass cruelty and violence corresponds to the Nazi's treatment of the Jews during the Holocaust. Throughout the Holocaust, Nazi soldiers engaged in horrific, atrocious acts of violence and cruelty while attempting to exterminate the European Jewish population.