Why was the holocaust directed at the jews?

Question

Why specifically them. Why not muslims or some other group?

Answer 1

why are u racisit??? actually because after world war 1 everyone in Germany was poor... however the jews were wealthy... and so people resented them for not helping with reconstruction of Germany...and also Hitler despised jews because a jew was the doctor of his mom who died... and also it has happened before (genocides against jews) and everyone hates the jews and dont give me this bs where u say u love them... look at history!

Answer 2

First, there were many holocausts before the last one in Germany, just due to the lack of cameras those were not captured and therefore mostly forgotten.

There have been many progromes between 1300 and 1938 in other countries, like France, Spain and other places, just that is forgotten. Maybe those people are glad it is no longer mentioned...

Of course this was a big scapegoat issue, society needed somebody to blame for anything. The more christianity grew, the bigger the holocausts became. First they declared all financial business as evil and filthy, so no christian could become a jeweller or banker. That was left to the Jewish. Since they were considered filthy, the filthy jobs were left to them. After some centuries, they have gathered quite some richdom, and of course that caused envy again.

There were always reasons why people were mad at other people, envy was mostly involved.

BUT: that was never admitted.
Officially Jews were killed because they had executed the carpenter Jeoshua bin Joseph (they called him Jesus Christ). Now of course those Jews killed had nothing to do with that, but you know how that goes. You are in that raging mood and won't be stopped by rationality. And also, there was so much to steal from them.

It is bugging me that german tax money is still (yes, to this day) going to Israel to make up for the Holocaust, while no other country is required doing that.
What are the Americans doing to make up for the slaughter of the Natives when the Whites came and killed them, took their land, killed the buffalos? Just this week I saw (on Oprah) how the Navajos live in utter poverty).

Whenever a german politician (usually a conservative or liberal) stands up and wonders wether sometimes maybe it might be possible to just start thinking about stopping the payments to the Israelis, he has to step down from his office. It will be a scandal, because he spoke the forbidden words. The leaders of the Jewish will then remind everyone of the Holocaust and how terrible it is to think they can just stop paying, in fact they must go on paying with their tax money for ever now, for eternity.

THIS, (may I say it?), will eventually lead to another hostility towards them.

I am not saying in any way that the holocaust was not terrible. Definately it was, all were. But the Germans were only caught on tape, so to speak. We were the last ones in history. All the others before point their fingers at us, and the other (non-jewish) holocausts are not even worth being mentioned in society. That makes me wanna throw up. Sorry.

Answer 3

Because the Jews had been the scapegoat of choice in Europe for centuries. In the post WWI period in Germany, there was a general feeling that the Jews had somehow helped "sell out" the war, and "give up" at the 11th hour. Generally speaking, the Jews were chosen as pre-existing anti-semitism allowed scapegoating with minimal further propaganda.

Answer 4

It wasn't directed specifically at the Jews, lots of other groups were killed as well. It just happened that there were a lot of Jews around.

Answer 5

It wasn't.
It was directed at MANY groups.
There just happened to be more Jews around.

that's not anti-semetic to acknowledge, it's just history.

Read about the germanic gypsies and the holocaust, for example.

Answer 6

It wasn't.

It was directed at liberals, queers, communists, atheists, vagabonds, gypsies and anyone else the GOP ... oops, Nazis considered enemies of the state.

David Gruen (aka David Ben Gurion) and his fellow Zionists used it as opportunity to eliminate their opponents while gaining support for their cause. The vast majority of Jews who were confined to concentration camps opposed Zionism. Which made them targets for Zionist extremists.

Zionists actively supported Hitler and the Nazis, and they were supported by Hitler & the Nazis. Israel's dirty little secret is that Zionists supported the Nazis.


The "final solution" was the idea of Alfred Rosenberg, and he was directly responsible for the execution camps. Rosenberg was not a Christian or Muslim....

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alfred_Rosenberg

Answer 7

The genocide of Jews was not original to Hitler. Google Hitler, Grand Mufti & Islam together. It was the Muslim's idea.

Answer 8

Oh, some other groups were targeted, but they did not have the large population in Germany that Jews had. Hitler was crazy. Do you expect to find any logic in his reasoning?

Answer 9

Because it was also directed at: the polish people, gypsies, gays. Should we remember all the others that died and give them a country in the middle-east so they can oppress and harras palestinians?

Answer 10

This is from the U.S. Holocaust Museum...it's not very long and will give you the answers you seek:

The Holocaust was the systematic, bureaucratic, state-sponsored persecution and murder of approximately six million Jews by the Nazi regime and its collaborators. "Holocaust" is a word of Greek origin meaning "sacrifice by fire." The Nazis, who came to power in Germany in January 1933, believed that Germans were "racially superior" and that the Jews, deemed "inferior," were "life unworthy of life." During the era of the Holocaust, the Nazis also targeted other groups because of their perceived "racial inferiority": Roma (Gypsies), the handicapped, and some of the Slavic peoples (Poles, Russians, and others). Other groups were persecuted on political and behavioral grounds, among them Communists, Socialists, Jehovah's Witnesses, and homosexuals.

In 1933, the Jewish population of Europe stood at over nine million. Most European Jews lived in countries that the Third Reich would occupy or influence during World War II. By 1945, close to two out of every three European Jews had been killed as part of the "Final Solution", the Nazi policy to murder the Jews of Europe. Although Jews were the primary victims of Nazi racism, other victims included tens of thousands of Roma (Gypsies). At least 200,000 mentally or physically disabled people were murdered in the Euthanasia Program. As Nazi tyranny spread across Europe, the Nazis persecuted and murdered millions of other people. More than three million Soviet prisoners of war were murdered or died of starvation, disease, neglect, or maltreatment. The Germans targeted the non-Jewish Polish intelligentsia for killing, and deported millions of Polish and Soviet citizens for forced labor in Germany or in occupied Poland. From the earliest years of the Nazi regime, homosexuals and others deemed to be behaving in a socially unacceptable way were persecuted. Thousands of political dissidents (including Communists, Socialists, and trade unionists) and religious dissidents (such as Jehovah's Witnesses) were also targeted. Many of these individuals died as a result of incarceration and maltreatment.

Before beginning the war in 1939, the Nazis established concentration camps to imprison Jews, Roma, other victims of ethnic and racial hatred, and political opponents of Nazism. During the war years, the Nazis and their collaborators created ghettos, transit camps, and forced-labor camps. Following the invasion of the Soviet Union in June 1941, Einsatzgruppen (mobile killing units) carried out mass-murder operations against Jews, Roma, and Soviet state and Communist party officials. More than a million Jewish men, women, and children were murdered by these units. Between 1942 and 1944, Nazi Germany deported millions more Jews from the occupied territories to extermination camps, where they murdered them in specially developed killing facilities.

In the final months of the war, SS guards forced camp inmates on death marches in an attempt to prevent the Allied liberation of large numbers of prisoners. As Allied forces moved across Europe in a series of offensives on Germany, they began to encounter and liberate concentration camp prisoners, many of whom had survived the death marches. World War II ended in Europe with the unconditional surrender of German armed forces in the west on May 7 and in the east on May 9, 1945.