Causes of the Holocaust

Hitler's fervent anti-semistism played a huge part in the persecution of Jews during World War II. The Jews were frequently referred to in Hitler's autobiography "Mein Kampf" and Hitler had made plain his hated for them. References to the "filthy Jew" litter the book. In one section, Hitler wrote about how the Jews planned to "contaminate" the blood of pure Germans: "The Jewish youth lies in wait for hours on end...spying on the unsuspicious German girl he plans to seduce...He wants to contaminate her blood and remove her from the bosom of her own people. The Jew hates the white race and wants to lower its cultural level so that the Jews might dominate."

However, according to a website Holocaust History had mention when Hitler hated the Jews, he blame... ... middle of paper ... ...ermany, to have his power and to be the most evil dictator in the whole World War II history. About 6 million people died and most of them where the Jewish people. To conclude this essay, Adolf Hitler had many reasons why he hate the Jews, most of the reasons was about the government which is they are too intrusive on Germany’s politics and culture. Hitler and the Nazis believed that the Jews were a kind of biological struggle. In the Adolf Hitler’s he wrote that he’s hatred was influenced by Dr. Karl Lueger and the Christian Social Party.

The Nazis are entirely to blame for the Holocaust because they encouraged violence throughout Europe, and even forced fellow German citizens to join in their fight against the Jews. The Nazis' practiced anti-Semitism. Anti-Semitism is defined as “hostility to or prejudice against Jews” (Archive.adl.org,“Antisemitism”), and the Nazis took that concept to the extreme. Hitler and other Nazi leaders viewed the Jews not as a religious group, but as a harmful race which would weaken the other, more superior races. Some might say the Nazis' hatred toward the Jews was fueled by fear.

During World War II (1939-1945), the Nazis killed several million Jews, Roma (Gypsies), and members of other groups, believing them inferior to an idealised Aryan race. In brief, Hitler had favoured the stereotypical view of a blue eyed, blond haired individual over the people possess brown hair and brown eyes. This resulted in the 25-point programme that Nazis used to control the German society at the time by manipulating their beliefs, especially on racism as well as also taking away much of their freedom. It is therefore presented that there are many contributing factors to account for Nazism’s influence by race and racism. The basis of Nazi thinking was a crude form of Social Darwinism, which initiated the basis of the ideology of the Nazi Party and the influence of racism.

This was the rise to power that he needed to carry out his campaign of evil against the Jewish people. After his rise to power, Hitler branded the Jews as sub-humans, also known as, “Untermen... ... middle of paper ... ...is theory is the reason why it is to important for people around the world to remember what happened during the Holocaust to the Jewish people. The start of the Holocaust was a gradual process and the years during the Holocaust were indescribable. No Jew involved knew if there was ever going to be an end to their torture. As stated earlier, this was the most horrible tale of genocide in history.

How Jews were Discriminated Against in Germany from 1933-1939 The discrimination of Jews was prevalent in Germany in the 1930’s. Attacks on the Jews had occurred in Christian countries since the Middle Ages, but intensified between 1933 and 1939 due to the Reign of Hitler’s power. According to Hitler’s racial theories, the Jews deliberately planned to destroy the German people, as they did at the time of war. He influenced the Germans, that it was the Jews and such invalids, who caused the failure and collapse of Germany in World War I. The Germans, being in a vulnerable and desperate state, believed this, and subsequently, the beliefs of anti-Semitism in Germany increased.

People like Hitler, Goebbels, and Julius Streicher played on this ignorance of other people to instill fear and loathing of the Jews. In general, people don’t like what they don’t understand. The Nazis exploited this truism by warping, retarding, and creating supposed grievances that the Jews were responsible. During the rallies, the speakers would rant and rave about how they would exact “vengeance against their eternal enemy, the Jew” (1), and how that “Europe will have defeated this threat only when the last Jew has left our part of the planet” (1). Hitler himself at the outbreak of “The German people will not be destroyed in this war, rather the Jew” (1).

According to Kaplan, some methods used to exclude or eliminate Jews from the German society includes motions such as dehumanization, anti-Semitic laws, the ordering of the Jews to wear the star of David, Kristallnacht ( the night of the broken glass), and last but not least Genocide. With all the motions and cruel acts that took place in order to eliminate and separate a deserving race from another, this movement takes place as one of the cruelest amongst others. Hitler’s organization of the Nazi party was merely based on the unhappiness of his life and a way of blaming others for his mistakes in his life. To be such a passionate, well-spoken leader, one would think his talents and skills could have been used for something other than cruel acts that he has done to millions of innocent individuals. Dehumanization of Jews was a campaign led by Hitler and his Nazi government that basically demoralized the image of the Jewish community in many people’s eyes.

Therefore, they needed someone to blame for their troubled economy. Someone had to take the blame for their misfortune, and unfortunately, the Jewish race became the prime target of the “find someone to blame theory” Hitler had come up with. Hitler’s “final solution” was a well-strategized plan that was used to create beliefs, which most Germans were falsely blinded to believe in. Propaganda influenced others to join their plan or agree with their ideas, and discrimination against those who were of a different race or descent. Therefore some of the main reasons why the holocaust occurred were due to denial, propaganda and discrimination against another race.

The Nazis did all in their power to annihilate the followers of Judaism, while the Jews attempted to rebel, rioted against the government, and united as one. Furthermore, the genocide had many social science factors that caused the opposition between the Jews and Nazis. Both the German economy and the Nuremberg Laws stimulated the Holocaust; nevertheless, a majority of the Nazis’ and Hitler’s actions towards Jews were because of the victims’ ethnicity. The German economy complicated the Nazis’ financial situation because of events that happened before the Holocaust. Due to the poor condition of the economy, the funds made traced back to the Jews, causing more disagreements to arise.