Increase in Presecution of Jews by the Nazi Regime

Increase in Presecution of Jews by the Nazi Regime

Response as to why the Nazis persecuted the Jewish community was not

simply Hitler's hatred of the Jews but it has its roots in a much

broader grounds. German society and long lasting historical opinions

of the Jews made the Nazis attitude a relatively long-standing

concept.

Hitler's personal hatred of the Jews is widely believed to have

originated in his time in pre First World War Vienna, at this time the

city was quite cosmopolitan with a range of cultures, races and

religions present in the city. Hitler applied entry into the Academy

Of Fine Arts but was unsuccessful; historians believe that Hitler's

envy of Jews and other races or asocial's (As Hitler would later

define) being allowed entry and living prosperous lifestyles led to

his personal anti Semitic feelings.

Some more radical members of German society argued that the hostility

of the Jews and Christians, through the murder of Jesus is an

justification for maltreatment of the Jews, an argument tracing back

many centuries, however a more common approach is the envious culture

towards an almost entirely privileged and successful community, In

1933, Jews made up less than one percent of Germanys population and

yet 16 percent of lawyers and 10 percent of Doctors were Jewish.

Jews had a distinguishable, almost comical portrayal in Nazi Germany,

they were shown as having long noses with dark black hair, and this

certainly did not match the ideals of an Aryan German with blond hair.

Hitler believed that 75% of all Communists were Jews and that Jews

were Lazy, yet he also believed that the German Jews were slowly

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... blatant as Hitler described the

annihilation of the Jewish Race in a speech and the Reich Central

Office for Jewish emigration is set up, the Nazi message was clear,

they wanted Jews out of Germany.

Those who did avoid the terrible years of the holocaust that would

follow were fortunate, millions of others would not be so lucky.

In conclusion the persecution of the Jews was a gradual process were

its brutality would not really be apparent until the late 1930's, It I

difficult to pinpoint the precise reasons as to why the Nazis targeted

the Jews but I believe that it was predominantly driven by Hitler's

personal disgust towards them, It is widely believed that almost all

of Hitler's and the Nazi policy had anti Semitic motives behind them

and the nation could only really be swept along in a wave of mass

Nazism.