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Targeting Jews for Genocide
When discussing The Holocaust, our minds tend to jump straight to the genocide of the Jewish populations of Europe. This is because of the approximate 11 million people killed during The Holocaust; approximately 6 million of them were Jews. Many people are now left to wonder why Hitler and the Nazi Party specifically targeted the Jews for genocide. The main reason was because the Nazi Party took the idea of nationalism to an extreme, new level. Hitler also thought the Jews were responsible for Germany losing World War 1. Hitler may have been influenced in his childhood on ideas of anti-Semitism. According to A Teacher’s Guide to the Holocaust, the opposition and discrimination of Jews is known as anti-Semitism. It is even said that Hitler showed ideas of anti-Semitism as far back as 1919 (“Victims” 3). Even before they could take actions on exterminating the Jews they had to establish who was Jewish and who was not.
According to The Jewish Virtual Library, the Nazi’s singled out the Jews because they felt threatened by them (“The Holocaust-36 Questions and Answers about the Holocaust”). To the Nazi Party, the world was a constant battle ground for a fight between races. Being the extreme nationalists that they were, they saw the Jewish race (which isn’t even a race to begin with; it is a religion) as a barrier to the Aryan race reaching their rightfully deserved supremacy (“36 Questions and Answers about the Holocaust” 16). The master plan of this mass destruction of Jews is what the Nazi’s called the “Final Solution” in the Wannsee Conference in Berlin on January 20, 1942 (“36 Questions and Answers about the Holocaust” 7). To the Nazi Party, it was their job to exterminate the Jews in order to rise ...

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... they were required to wear a badge of the Star of David and carry identification cards at all time to show that they were Jewish. The burning and vandalizing of synagogues and Jewish owned businesses led to the arrests and murders of many Jews and fear of arrests and murders in other Jews (“Victims” 4). The Jews were forced to be outcasts from German Society to show that they could not really be a German Jew. Jews did not fit Hitler and his Nazi Party’s vision of an extremely German Germany and they clearly had no problem being blunt about their opinions.

Works Cited

"The Holocaust: 36 Questions & Answers About the Holocaust."
36 Questions & Answers About the Holocaust. Web. 11 May 2014.
"A Teacher's Guide to the Holocaust-Victims."
A Teacher's Guide to the Holocaust-Victims. Web. 11 May 2014.
"Why Did Hitler Hate Jews?" Anne Frank House. Web. 11 May 2014.

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