Taking Responsibility for the Holocaust

They believed that the Jews had grabbed to much economic influence. What makes they hate the Jew because they believed that they were intrusive too much politics and culture. They believed that the Jews were biologically and racially distinct and that there was a kind of biological struggle for dominance over the entire human race between the Jews and everybody else. At the final, Mr. Cesarani concluded this wasn’t something that could be solved through religious debate and argument, the conversation of the Jews. 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.

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.

Jews were a target of the holocaust because Hitler hated them for all the reasons in the world. He also blamed them for the loss of World War 1 in Germany. Hitler had told the Germans that they could win World War 1 if they did not get “stabbed in the back” by the Jews. So the main question is, how Hitler’s hate of the Jews started a superior race. Hitler hated the Jews for all the reasons in the world.

Another reason that Jews were hated was jealousy. They were believed to be God’s chosen people. Hitler took advantage of this, and used it as another opening for propaganda. Soon, the Jews were blamed for the death of Christ and said to have brought all of the pain and suffering on the world. It was said that God was punishing the Jews, and the rest of the world, for not receiving Him, and once the Jews were gone, the Garden of Eden would thrive again.

There was large amount of discrimination and anti-Semitism against the Jews and others who were different from the societal norm in Germany at the time. Jews and others lived in fear, many children and failed died due to the idea of the Germans that they were superior people and a superior race to everyone else. Germany was being run by a tyrannic and corruptive government that resulted in the genocide that is today known as the Holocaust. Sources: http://www.ushmm.org/wlc/en/article.php?ModuleId=10005143 http://www.theholocaustexplained.org/ks3/the-nazi-rise-to-power/economic-issues/ 1919-1933-an-economic-overview/#.VjBfrYTFtmA Stalinist Russia: The Ukrainian genocide is very unknown to society and is something that should be

Therefore because this was becoming a racial war, this was an opportunity for Germany to 'cleanse' itself of Jews like it should have done centuries ago. With Hitler being Anti-Semitic and a strong leader for the Nazi party, Anti-Semitism was influencing the minds of ordinary German civilians. Adolf Hitler had previously been in prison before he became ruler of Germany in his second attempt. During the time he was in prison, he wrote a book called 'Mien Kamph' his book was incredibly racist and anti -Semitic, Hitler expressed his hatred for the Jews and influenced his readers into hating these 'impure' people. Hitler's main idea was to as he called it 'cleanse' Europe of these non- deserving people.

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. Hitler blames the Jews for all of the economic and social issues that Germany was experiencing at the time. The propaganda was to dehumanize Jews by claiming them to be an inferior race while laying down the foundation for anti-Semitism, leading up to the elimination of the Jewish community’s freedom and rights that were rightfully entitled to. This movement excluded them from society through media; poster, newspapers, cartoons, and etc. that dismantled the image of Jews causing nothing but hatred, violence, persecution, and humiliation of the Jewish 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.

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).