why did Adolf Hitler think up his 'super race', what did he have against Jews?

Question

what was Hitler's issue? why did people believe him, why did people turn against there Jewish friends when they knew they would not harm them? how did people who worked at the death camps like Aushwitz, live with themselvs knowing what they were doing was wrong?

look, i'm just a 14 year old High School Student, who can't find these answers, i don't want to cause trouble.

look, i'm just a 14 year old French/British/German High School Student, who can't find these answers, i don't want to cause trouble.

Answer 1

Tex, Crow, hsmeilop, goldwing110083, hastymp are right.

Germas was crushed into misery and Hitler need bring a country like Namibia go up. Get proud and invert its sense.

Hate discurse happens all the time, specially during crisis period you can see it clearly in USA, Italy, Iran (past), North Korea.

When you are in battlefield, you must obbey or die by it. You have your ideas but everything run on a other way. Of course, everybody that worked there had psicological damage, but again, its normal. You can see it during Indigenous Massacres in USA, Pre-Colombians cultures massacrated by Spanish, Carthago in Roman ancient Period.

Jews had a lot of persecutions since they arrived. As a most succesfull integrated and a consistent society (one of the most ancient one) they had problem in Egytp duirng Ramses period, in Venetia, Spain, Portugal, Greece and so on. Hate specific group is part of the Garbage of psicological body. Our worst part.

Did you pay attention to dogs? All started from wolfs. They are all wolf-like. How they have too many changes? During controlled reprodution; Scientist says that dogs now have almost 20% of genetic difference due this crossed lead by Humans;
Can you imagine if we do this kind of work with humans? - of course it would take at least 1.000 year to get some difference and is not practical.

SuperRace is one way to bring Proud. Distructed German just rise up, put entire europe in the knees and had the best science and best Tanks from that period. They failed due the arrogance.
Hitler was during the begining somekind of savior, after, everything goes wrong and he lost control.
Germans did not started to exterminate jews since the beginign, but it happened during the war. Understand taht is something forbiden.

As you have 14 year old, you must try to understand history. If one man fail, you cannot just ignore all his work, but understand it. Try to keep attached to Ethics and Philosofy and you will go following the right path.

Ask and separate garbage from good stuff is difficult. If something appears wrong, be careful, probably is wrong, but always keep the doubt with you.

OPS...:
"Hitler" - Germans of WWII policy - killed Polish, Russian, Gipsy, Black guys, Gays too. You had more russians dead within these deathfields than jews, and if you consider proportion, of course, you had more gipsy than another one.

Answer 2

Most of your questions are the same ones everyone who studies Hitler still has. Psychologists have tried to answer the latter two questions with relative success. But, the first ones:

The world has always been very anti-semitic. It can be seen in medieval times and was very prominent in the Western world prior to World War II. Even US cities had strong anti-semitic beliefs, disallowing Jews from belonging to certain clubs just as they disallowed blacks. Hitler was a product of his time, but taken to the extreme.

It is true that he had a Jewish mother. I'm not sure about the rumor about his nurse, however. In any case, Hitler was a soldier during WWI and was badly injured by gas. While his eyesight was recovering, he made friends with anti-semitic people in the hospital who encouraged his hatred of Jews.

You will want to do research on the prominence of the Dolchstoss Legend in German politics after World War I. It was the "Stab in the Back" Legend that many German politicians began preaching after World War I that referenced the "war guilt clause" of the Treaty of Versailles. The politicans preached that the German people hadn't really lost the war, it was cowardly german-jewish politicians who lost the war for the Germans. This unjustified blaming of Jews for everything that went wrong was common. They were the common scapegoat.

People turned against their Jewish friends and neighbors for many reasons. There was the fear of the gestapo, the monetary reward for doing so, the threat of violence for not, the reward of the Jewish families house and property. In some places, the Nazi troops would force the Jewish family to clean up their house, roll up the carpet and lock the cabinets before they left. The family then had to leave the key nailed to the door post before they left. The house was then typically sold to an Aryan race family who was moved from other sections of the newly conquered German lands, such as the Baltic states. The Jewish family was just told that they would get to come back to a clean home after their trip.

Some of the Auschwitz guards believed in the Nazi cause whether legitimately or they were brainwashed. Read Stanley Milgram's experiments on obedience. [ http://www.stanleymilgram.com/ and other places online, check google] and also Philip Zimbardo's Prison Study [ http://www.prisonexp.org/ ]. The results of these are outstanding and absolutely mind boggling at times, but if you read into it enough, it really tells you about the root of human character.

Answer 3

The Jewish people have always face anti-semtism in Germany. After the Germans lost WWI Hilter and the Nazi party used the Jewish people as a scapegoat for the failing econmony to boost German miltairsm.The Aryan super race was his idealology for the German people. Most Germans past and present don't look Arayan at all( Arayan described by Hilter: blonde hair, blue eyes, and a tall figure) Most Germans have very dark hair and are a cross between the Nordic Europeans and the Eastern Europeans. Some sources and documents state that Adolf Hitler was acutally 25% Jewish.

Answer 4

The solution to the Jewish Problem wasn't really Hitler's baby.

After WWI the economy of Germany was shot, the mark was worth nothing, and old Germans tell me that the Jews had a lot to do with that. Once the Leader began to spit in the eye of the rest of Europe, built a strong military and economy it was easy to convince Germans to wreak vengeance on the Jews.
The Nazis who worked the camps are not so very different from Saddam, or Milosevic, or any of a hundred African leaders. Once you are convinced that another group is less than human, you just kill them wholesale, like the American Army did at Wounded Knee.

Answer 5

I have read most of these answers. and these people dont seam to know much about Hitler. ignore all the things they said about him. He had 2 balls and his father didnt have an afair with a Jewish woman. Thats all made up. Now what im gona say most people dont like. Because it makes the German people responsable and not just hitler on his own.

Ok.

In Europe, long before Hitler came to power in Germany there was huge amounts of Antisemitism. France regulary deported Jews to South America and repressed Jewish authors and artists, like Zola, in fact if you were to go back in time to 1900 and take bets on where a mass extermination of Jews waould take place you would have put your money on Frace.
Now, when Hitler came to power the German economy was in depression, there was Hyper inflation and the peak of this some people were know to have sold their houses for bread, money was worthless. The German people blamed the Jews for this, the old steriotypical image of a Jew as a banker you see, and Hitler was able to use this hate to influence their voting. So it wasnt just "
"Vote for Adolf Hitler"
it was
"Vote fo Adolf Hitler the scurge of the Jew"
The people saw him as a pure Germanic man who would lead them out of the shadow of the jews.
The idea of the master race, thats a little tricky to explain. But again Hitler used it to give the German people a sense of divine importance. To see them selfs as supermen on earth. Which allowed him to wage war under the pretense that he was securing "Leabesroung" (living space) for the Master race.
This was all done through propaganda, not unlike the propaganda used in America today.

Answer 6

Hilter was a genius at building a war machine and getting the populace behind it. To do this, he united Germany with a common HATE...and Jews were the target...Jewish have always been an easy target for they work hard, save money, and appear to be more affluent than the commoner, although they are not...they just work hard and save. And consider that Jews are NOT Christians, the majority faith in Germany at that time. He began his attacks and got the people going in the common hate...you see it here in the US daily..hate Gays, Hate non-Christians, Hate Muslims, etc....always hate someone. He was able to bring Germany out of WWI ruin and into a massive war machine that set out to conquer the world. And the Germans came very close to doing just that. IT was Germany's, and Hitler's arrogance that cause Germany to fail. Had Germany continued at the pace at which it started, they would have had the A-Bomb, rockets, etc..nothing could have stopped them. But they failed because they thought they were so far above everyone else that no one could beat them. They lost. I hope this helps.

Answer 7

hitler needed something to unite the germans. thats why he used the race issue.

i've read some books on hitler and i think his animosity to the jews stemmed from his childhood. Hitler was a so-so artist/painter. he wanted to enter this school/college/university. but all the scholarships for poor students have been given to wealthy jews.

hitler was a demagogue. he had this uncanny ability to convince the masses. but he was shy in small groups.

germans at that time were paying a lot of reparations for the world war 1. hitler and the nazi party took advantage of that situation. it was a propaganda war. and the nazis were winning the german people. hitler became chancellor late 1930s.

some of the guards in the concentration camps had to do it because of survival. you show mercy to the jews, you're labeled as a sympathizer. but the really bad guards that really believe in the aryan race policy... are still being hunted up to now. :D

Answer 8

Well he need a scapegoat, so he chose the Jews. Supposedly he wanted to be an artist when he was younger and he couldn't get into art school but there were alot of good jewish artists that went there or something. So yea supposedly that is why he didn't like them.

People didn't want to die. Sure it's horrible but, you can't really look down on them until you are in their shoes. Sure it's mean to work there but most people would rather do that then get arrested or killed themselves.

It's like didn't white people in the south feel bad when black people were lynched. Maybe, but they didn't do anything about it.

I think he was a strong leader, he got Germany out of the depression. I'm not saying he was good I'm just saying he had the potential to be good but instead he used it to do bad.

Answer 9

He didn't just randomly "think up his super race." As you may know, World War II was occuring at that time, and Hitler needed someone to blame for all that was going wrong in his country. There were extreme economic issues due to the war costs, so people were starting to get upset with Hitler and his Nazis. He needed a way to move the blame from him to someone else, and he chose the Jews, a minority group, knowing that they wouldn't be able to stand up against the majority of Germans, who were non-Jews....more specifically, "Aryans," which was the name Hitler assigned his "super race." There are 8 steps to any Genocide, so I will just sum them up. First, the targeted group is classified as a group, separate from the majority, then they are given names or distinguishing symbols, in this case the Star of David that all Jews had to wear. The, they are dehumanized (compared to an animal as opposed to human so people would not feel so bad about killing them), and from there on out it just goes downhill until the actual mass murder of this target group, in this case the Jews. The Nazi officers were too afraid to speak up against this horror, because of Hitler's zero-tolerance policy...they would be dead if they spoke up, everyone must conform to the majority's ways or suffer the consequences. A lot of what happened was due to fear of the consequences.

Answer 10

i see that German Jews refused the stupid ideas of Hitler, logically,most humans prefer the ideas of the opponent countries,such as England,France....., but Hitler needed those German Jews because they have a considerable magnitude in science and money. this caused a conflict ion between the German Jews and the party of Hitler, Nazi and,of course, those stupid ideas may attracted more Germans, may by eloquent speeches, cunning propaganda, and the natural human-being- desire to be superior. These may be the reasons that, German Jews stood at the side opposite to that of the ruler party and its followers, besides, those Germans who feared Nazi and inforced to upheld this Nazi. In such circumstances a friend may abandoned his own.Notice that, after the year 1945 Germany had rendered compensation. Sorry, i do not understand the second part of your question and i never read about Auschwitz.

Answer 11

This is a really complex question. I agree with many others in it takes many books to even begin to explain. I would contribute a lot of it to the fact that there is a ton of history with anti-semitism in the area. When modernity happened (after the crusades and such) there was romanticism -- which is an idealized view of your nation. Since the Jews did not have a nation and were viewed as outsiders they were often discriminated against...and even before that, in 1144, there was the Blood Libel where a boy was murdered and it was blamed (incorrectly) on the Jews, saying they used his blood to cook. After that children were told Jews would kill you and steal your blood. The Holocaust is not something that happens over night. Many years of discrimination and inhertant hatred contributed to the ability of Hitler's Final Solution.
Oh, and Hilter plagiarized most of his "ideas" from a guy by the name of Ostara. See, he couldn't even be an orignal evil dictator.