Why were the Jews involved in the Holocaust?

Answer 1

Hitler hated the Jews.He had them killed and sent to concentration camps.

Answer 2

To specifically answer your question is to say: "Because Nazi Party members designed an industrial system of forced labor and eradication and specifically targeted Jews, and at the time it wasn't believed that people could be so heartless so Jews didn't fight tooth and nail against it at first." That's why.

But it's too simplistic. Jews have been persecuted as "Christ Killers" since Christianity became the official religion of Rome under Constantine. Why? Because Jews never were in step with the rest of the Roman Empire. When Rome worshipped numerous Gods, the Jews insisted that there was only one. When Rome decreed that there was only one... and his son, Jews who didn't accept Jesus as The Messiah (and let's face it, the Bible didn't exactly spell out specifically what the Messiah would be like. Some Jews expected a traditional Military King, which Jesus wasn't). Roman architecture and attitudes spread across Europe... and the Middle East, leading to centuries of cultural/religious clashing.

By the time Hitler came along, there was a long-standing tradition of Jew-basjing in Europe. Roughly half of the people put through the COncentration Camp system were Jewish, but as a single group, they were by far the largest... and as a percentage of total Jews in Europe, a greater proportion of them were picked up than other groups. As disgusting as that system was, it was also incredibly efficient. It eradiated a HUGE portion of the Jewish population; the quiet and weak, leaving the wily and strong. Israel is a strong nation today because of what the Nazis did. I am not for a second tryig to say that the Holocaust had a good outcome, just pointing out that it continues to effect our world today in a very real way.

Answer 3

Jews never HAD to go to Europe if they could find somewhere else to live. There has been a Jewish presence in Europe for centuries. Many were able to settle in Persia, Central Asia, Caucasus, etc. At the time there were few Jews living in Israel (at the time British Palestine) and the USA compared to now. The Jews who were affected were only the ones living in areas occupied by Nazis which were places like the Netherlands, France, Austria, Germany, Poland, Hungary, and many other places throughout Eastern Europe.

Answer 4

Some jews collaborated to save their own skin. also, some Jews unwittingly aided the Nazis, for instance, prior to the Holocaust, Adolph Eichmann had met with Jewish leaders in Jeruselem and across central Europe, and because of this was an expert as to the population distribution of the Jews in Europe. This was extrememly useful for him later in life, when he because the Architect of the Holocaust.

Answer 5

Hitler used the Jews as a scapegoat for why Germany suffered so much after WWI. In reality, the reason was because of the harsh terms of the Treaty of Versailles. However, Germany essentially brought this upon itself for having attacked other nations during WWI. Hitler's anti-Semiticism caused him to blame the Jews instead of the Germans for Germany's economic and social catastrophe following WWI.

Answer 6

They were not involved by choice. You see Adolf Hitler thought he was superior to the Jewish people so he had the Nazi party murder 6 million Jews in horrible ways. Some were burned alive, shot in the head, experimented on, starved to death, and just plain beat to death. Women and children alike. It's called genocide.

Answer 7

Hitler had written in Mein Kampf years before taking power that he intended to find a solution to the "problem" of the Jews in Europe. The Jews are often blamed for problems in the world by people who are conspiracy minded, and Hitler blamed them for causing Germany to lose WWI and for the terrible economic depression and inflation that gripped Germany after WWI. He and his National Socialist ("Nazi") party were very anti-Semitic, gave their party a focus on the "other" whom people could focus their frustration and hatred on. (Sort of like in the Muslim world today, or like African-Americans in the southern U.S. after the Civil War.) The Nazis first started to drive Jews out of Germany (of course confiscating their property), but then began to round them up, take their belongings and put them in "concentration camps" along with many other people they regarded as undesirable, such as communists, Roman Catholic priests and gypsies. Then they started killing them, slowly at first by shooting, then working and starving them to death and gassing them (and not just Jews) in "death camps." This last is what is referred to as the Holocaust, and many millions of Jews and others died in the death camps. Incidentally, the Holocaust is one of the best documented events in history--eyewitness accounts, Nazi confessions, photographs when the camps were liberated, etc.

Answer 8

They weren't alone. Other people were victims of Nazism as well, but they were by far the largest group. The Nazi movement was anti-Semitic, which means "against Jews." The "Holocaust," as it is called, was what the Nazi's put them through.

Answer 9

If you mean by "involved" they actually participated and did some of the work, it is because they were threatened with death if they did not. Takes an incredibly strong person to stand up and tell folks threatening to kill you that they can just kill you as you are not going to help them kill others. Very few were able to do just that and I imagine that very few of the rest of us could either put in the same situation. Who knows, hopefully this question will never be asked of folks again in the manner it was during that time.

Answer 10

It's been theorized that Hitler's dad was a Jew and he ran out on little Hitler and his mother right after birth, thus creating a great enemy for the Jewish people in Hitler. Hitler also believed in an Aryan race (Tall, strong, pale, blond, blue eyes, super intelligent, etc.) and they didn't fit the mold by his doctrine and so had to be dispatched.

Answer 11

Hitler turned the German people against the jews.