Why Germans hated Jews?

Answer 1

That is a complicated question. In short many European countries had been using the Jewish as a scapegoat for problems which had deep seated and long running histories. These problems included many superstitious and religous elements. One in particular was economic. The christian churches of Europe believed that it was against the gospels for christians to lend money with interest (they called it usery), however the Jewish religion had no such stipulation. Therefore, when the resourceful Jewish people turned to one of the only jobs they were allowed (banking) they were labled heretics and persecuted. These beliefs unfortunately continued through to the 20th century, when Hitler and the Nazi party drew on them to gain power.

One thing to note, not every German persecuted the Jewish people.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wilm_Hosenfeld
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eduard_Schulte
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/German_Resistance

Answer 2

Germany was going through an economic depression at the time of WW2. And blamed the Jews for a lot of the problems that were going on. But the Germans weren't the only one to hate the Jews. Jews have been hated throughout History. Unfortunately

Answer 3

I think one fact has been missing from all the answers. The Jews were and are till today, blamed for Jesus's execution, which is totally wrong historically, but I won't go into that. At some point in the early christian history the Jews started to be prosecuted and a lot of evil was attached to them, their ways of life, beliefs etc. Anti-semitism or the hatred of Jews is not a German phenomena its a world-wide thing and the Germans were just one of many peoples who hated Jews.

Answer 4

Germany had suffered a humiliating defeat in WWI and they were going through a very hard economic and social period. What the Nazi party did was to find a different ethnic group within Germany and convince the public opinion to concentrate their hatred against them as the main source of evil. The Jews were the easy target since they were in control of the economic centers of Germany. The thing is that at that time te Germans loved to hate the Jews since they could be the answer to all their problems. If you mix propaganda with social problems you get impressive results like the Nazi Germany but Germany is not the only historical example.

Answer 5

Christian Germans hated Christians Jews. It mainly started out with Hitler who claimed that Jews were the cause of all things going wrong in the world. But i don't get Hitler, i mean his mother was Jewish , so it makes him half Jew, and also, some people says that he hated all blue eyed blond Jews and also the Jews who were creative, like artists, painters, lawyers, etc. So he was a bit mad.

Answer 6

Anti-semitism was historically very common throughout Europe and there have been various persecutions in many countries at various times for religious reasons.
Hitler just exploited this tendency for political and economic reasons on a larger scale than all previous pogroms.

Answer 7

Because they blamed them for Germany's economic woes after World War I. Actually, there was a lot of anti-semitism throughout the world in those days. They were the scapegoats.

Answer 8

The Germans needed a scapegoat, for screwing up their country.