is there an explanation to why Adolf Hitler is very hostile to the Jewish People?

Question

What are the reasons behind the hatred of Hitler towards the Jewish People?

Answer 1

because he is a smart person.
Before WWII Germany was experiencing a depression and Hitler took leadership in spite of his great speech skills.
in order to make other Germans feel better about there life crisis, he blamed all of the German people's problems on the Jews
Evey thing bad happening now was because of the Jews he would say.
The Jews during this time were very wealthy and many people were envy them.
if you watch his speeches you can see he has great speech skills.

Answer 2

This is a very complex question, and shouldn't be treated lightly.

1/ Hitler was a staunch Roman Catholic.
2/ He used the Jews, as a minority, as a scapegoat for the German people, who were starving and their country bankrupt due to the harsh terms of the Treaty of Versailles, which ended WW1. It is human nature to want to blame somebody else for all your problems. It also gave the people something to rally around, forgetting past differences with others.
3/ By marking the Jews (with a gold cross on their clothing), he made them pariahs. Many Jewish people left Germany, therefore there were less people chasing the same amount of food.
4/Some people have related his choice of the Jews as dating back to his younger life, when he was engaged to a Jewish girl in Austria, and this marriage never came about. I can not vouch for the voracity of this ascertion, though.
5/ Why is it that Americans are only interested in Hitlers treatment of the Jews? Why not stress the fact that the first 'death camps' were set up for Russians? Why not ask why were 1/2 million more Slavs than Jews killed by Hitler (Six and a half million Slavs, six million Jews)? What about the three million disabled, gay, political objectors, gypsy people he also killed? Why does Hollywood make so many films about the so called 'Jewish Holocaust', but none about the nine and a half million other people?
6/ Hitler hated anyone he did not feel benefitted 'his' society, or who openly disagreed with him.
7/ When will the disabled, gay people and Romany Gypsies get their own 'homeland' and be subsidised by the US?

Answer 3

Basically, the man was mad as a hatter. It is true that anti-semitism was rife in the early 20thC, especially in Germany where it was almost a badge of honour for the right wing.

There is no evidence that Hitler's mother was Jewish or that his relationships with individual Jews were anything but positive until he had spent some time as a vagrant in Vienna. There he read a lot of anti-semitic rubbish and decided that (since he didn't think his failure in life was his own fault) the Jews were responsible for the ills of the world in general and him in particular.

This is probably partly because, for many years, Jews were not allowed to own land, join the army or many of the learned professions. They were literate, mobile and not wedded to the traditional, almost feudal rural way of life which the German right wing worshipped. So that when that way of life began to change with the industrial revolution they weren't badly hit like the aristocrats and landed gentry and the peasants were. From there it was easy for people to say that they had made the changes happen for their own benefit. It's always easier to blame someone else for your own failures.

Also at that time, pogroms against the Jews further east had led to a lot of eastern Jews moving to Germany and Austria to escape. These dressed and sounded different to the German and Austrian Jews he had met before - they looked alien to the naive and under-educated Hitler and it was easy for him to demonise them in his mind.

Then came World War 1 - contrary to the views of anti-semites then and now, there is no evidence that Jews shirked their duty to become soldiers, on the contrary, there is evidence that their presence at the front was proportional to their presence in the population as a whole. Nor is there any evidence that Jews profitted any more than anyone else did.

Trouble is, the army and the country thought they were winning, right up to the moment they lost. So they needed someone to blame and for Hitler, the easiest thing to do was join up his feelings of betrayal with his existing anti-semitism - and Bingo! The Jews stabbed the Germans in the back.

Hitler was a man almost incapable of learning from his own mistakes or from experience - the stupid ideas he formed when he was a teenager lasted all his life. Without any compassion or self-doubt to undermine them, they just got bigger and more vile the older he got.

Answer 4

Just a guess, I don't think most people know why, but my thoughts are he needed a scape goat, people to set the blame against for the poor economy of Germany at that time and there were many Jews around. If he could use that as a starting point then the Nazi party could take control and when the Germans saw what happened to the Jews, fear in disobedience set in. That as well with his speeches in helping his people was a tool used in launching a war against Europe and the fact the Germans lost the first world war and so close to it's enemies borders was a fear that Germany was superior and needed to first attack and determine its own destiny and it's neighbors.

Answer 5

Quite simply Hitler was a struggling youth who wanted to be a painter and when the 2nd Reich fell after WW1, in which Hitler served as a Corporal and was gassed in the trenches , the only rich or powerful people who controlled the money in Germany were Jews. The Bankers, Jewellers, business owners, factory owners etc.

He then began to hate the Jews and when he was imprisoned for his part in an uprising against the traditional government of the time he wrote his ideals in a book called Mein Kampf (meaning My Struggle).

The rest they say is History and will not be repeated again.

Answer 6

He was fill to the brim with HATE, FALSE PRIDE, CONCEIT......, But according to Churchill "never was there a war So Preventable" as the 2ND World War was. WW2 was caused by political and diplomatic failure on the part of England and France. These 2 countries had at least half a dozen chances to stop it cold before it got out of control. But didn't because of self interest and the wish to prevent another WW1 at nearly all costs. Hitler was not a genius, as his handling of the war proved. He was a good gambler and egomaniac. He had no regard for anyone else when his own interests were concerned.

Answer 7

The Jews were scapegoats for centuries. It seems that every country had its period of violent anti-semitism. I don't know if it's true or not, but Paul Harvey had an interesting "Rest of the Story" about Hitler. It seems that when he was a young artist he nearly starved to death while he worked as a porter, carrying peoples baggage at a railroad station for tips. The only thing that prevented his starvation was the patronage of some art dealers or something. They contracted with him to illustrate greeting cards and told their friends about this young artist. The friends liked the cards and bought quite a few, keeping him alive. The art dealers and their friends were Jews, all of them! If this is true then I just don't understand his hatred.

Answer 8

Some claim Hitlers mother was half Jewish which he was ashamed of. also partly jealously as Jewish were doing quite well in the business world(banking) which some say contributed to the stopping of funding for the war. He mainly had this illusion that Jewish were damaging to society at large. In my opinion the guy was too extreme and will rot in hell for the millions of Jews killed under his rule. ("Holocaust") Austrian bastard

Answer 9

Oh, Eddie Izzard does the best bit on Hitler.

"In the 30s: Hitler, Czechoslovakia, Poland, France, the second World War – the Russian front, not a good idea! Hitler never played Risk when he was a kid! 'Cause you know, playing Risk, you could never hold on to Asia. That Asian-Eastern European area, you could never hold it, could you? Seven extra men at the beginning of every go, but you couldn't ****ing hold it!"

Answer 10

it's not "is", it's "was" - Hitler is dead, as you know.

basically at the time there was rampant anti-Semitism in many areas of the Western world, in Europe as well as in the U.S.

In the early days of the rise of his party, and even after he became Chancellor, Hitler was mostly "in line with the times", and welcome with open arms by the French, the Brits - you name it. His anti-Jews views shocked only a small minority, made of Jews of course, and/or of some (but far from all) intellectuals.

Even after he started doing horrible things to Jews - burning houses, whole districts - this did not raise that many eyebrows elsewhere in the West, as the majority still agreed with his philosophy, if not always with the method.

Then came the war, and countries who thought they were his friends were shocked to be attacked (think France). But as for Jews, well, while there were instances of Jews protected / hidden by some families, there were also many instances of "good average French citizens" happily leading the Nazis to Jewish families, hiding places of Jews, etc. Not to mention that the government of "free France" (southern half) was happily using its own police force to help the Nazis deport the Jews towards the camps. And of course, all Jewish property in France, of which huge parts of central Paris, was happily confiscated by the French government (and never returned).

it is only when more became known about the camps, and the "final solution", that most people really became shocked.

but their behaviour until such time, in France, in Italy, you name it, clearly shows that it wasn't a highly anti-Semitic Hitler, alone against a Jew-friendly Europe. It was an anti-Semitic madman, in a largery anti-Semitic Europe.

since then, of course, everyone has made best efforts to erase all the ugly stuff from memory (and sometimes, official records).