What did Hitler have against the jews? What was the whole point of killing so many?

Question

I am from India and in my tenth grade at school I read about the world wars and the horrors of WWII with the extermination of so many jews. Ever since I have wondered what pushed Hitler to the brink of such insanity. What did he have against them? Was there any personal vendetta involved? Killing innocent people in gas chambers, using them for deadly experiments were some of the atrocities but why why why did he do this? What did he gain out of all this?

Answer 1

Hitler was brilliant political animal. He understood that he must take a common denominator (such as anti semitisim ) and use it to gain power. Germany was at a low point in it's history because it had lost WWI and by giving the German people the pride of being a ruler and being in control the Jews became the scape goat of their failure. Hitler knew that the people hated the Jews so it was easy to convince them to steal , pillage, rape and kill these people without any resistance and in fact it was embraced by every country Hitler invaded. The Jews have always been reviled and hated throughout historty the only difference with Hitler was that he used the industrial revolution and mass production to do mass killing in a systematic way.

If you look at the world today - the Jews are still despised. with the Jews owning the most tinest piece of land - the world and Iran wants to take that away from them too. Nothing has really changed just the method of trying to remove them.

Answer 2

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My feelings as a Christian points me to my Lord and Savior as a fighter. - Adolf Hitler As a Christian I have no duty to allow myself to be cheated, but I have the duty to be a fighter for truth and justice... And if there is anything which could demonstrate that we are acting rightly it is the distress that daily grows. For as a Christian I have also a duty to my own people. - Adolf Hitler The folkish-minded man, in particular, has the sacred duty, each in his own denomination, of making people stop just talking superficially of God's will, and actually fulfill God's will, and not let God's word be desecrated. For God's will gave men their form, their essence and their abilities. Anyone who destroys His work is declaring war on the Lord's creation, the divine will. - Adolf Hitler Secular schools can never be tolerated because such schools have no religious instruction, and a general moral instruction without a religious foundation is built on air; consequently, all character training and religion must be derived from faith ...we need believing people. - Adolf Hitler We were convinced that the people need and require this faith. We have therefore undertaken the fight against the atheistic movement, and that not merely with a few theoretical declarations; we have stamped it out. - Adolf Hitler Hence today I believe that I am acting in accordance with the will of the Almighty Creator: by defending myself against the Jew, I am fighting for the work of the Lord. - Adolf Hitler

Answer 3

Hitler brought Germany out of a terrible financial time. In order to do that you need finances. The Jews were very good businessmen (their history of being shunted from country had made them so). How do you get their money and make a rightful claim on it? You declare them "them enemy". In this case Hitler used his theory of the superiority of the Aryan race in order to denounce the Jews. And their inferiority made them "usefulin his "medical" and other experiments, such as turning their skins into lampshades. They were not the only group he targeted. The mentally handicapped, the physically handicapped, anyone who did not live up to hs standards of this great Nordic/Aryan golden perfect body in a 'perfect' (though in reality perverted) mind. He also took care of his enemies, like journalists and Christian ministers who could, did, or he feared would speak out against him.

The wonder is how Germany went along with this. But then read "The Gulag Archipelago" by Alexander Solzhenitsyn, and he explains it succinctly. Any people is capable of moving into such a state where they inflict these kind of atrocities on others.

It is a warning to us all. Because I imagine most Germans didn't realize until too late what was happening, and it's the rare person who, realizing truth, will stand up at the cost of marytrdom for it.

Maggie

Answer 4

God allows alot of things to happen. It's called free will. And the holocaust did eventually end. One of the best stories is about Corrie Tenboom. A Jew who lost her family in the camps, was abused. She accepted Christ and later came in contact with one of the guards that hurt her in the camps. It's an amazing story of forgiveness. We live in a fallen world, due to sin. God doesn't stop everything. He allows people to choose their own paths. And out of the ashes He does amazing things. He works it all for good (Romans 8:28) God is perfect, all-loving, etc. He offers healing, and someday will come back and there will no crying or mourning anymore. He will wipe away every tear.

Answer 5

Antisemitism had existed in Europe for centuries long before Hitler came. Adolf Hitler had believed that the Jews controlled many of the world's banks and manufacturing firms and had created World War 1 solely for their own profit and that many of the Jewish officers in the German military and government at the time were largely incompetent and did little to win the war.

Answer 6

It's probably from his reading early on. He didn't care for the central bank, he didn't care for many things that were a problem to society, and a number of people in the banking and a few other notable avenues of society were Jewish. So that is probably where he came to dislike them.
Also, he has a thing about the pure Germanic race. Everyone else, he thought, were inferior to the Nordic race.

It is important to remember that it was not just the Jews who died under Hitler, but many, many others - Christians, Gypsies, and those who stood in his way.

Answer 7

You are seeking logic in regards to the mind of a madman?
There is none to be found.
In general Jewish people were viewed as a threat to the insecure because they had money, the creative arts talent, and thrived the most in society. They also held a religion that was not the majorities. But of course, none of this is the basis for atrocity. Like I said, you are asking about logic, but it is the darkest side of a wounded mankind that creates such horrors. The Jews were just used as scapegoats for those who felt powerless within their own souls. Quite sad, isn't it!

Answer 8

He argued they have a separate national and ethnical identity and therefore they constitute a threat to the purity of Germanic blood and weaken the German Reich (Empire). In other words they are untermenschen (subhumans) and have to be dealt with accordingly.


>> You are seeking logic in regards to the mind of a madman?
>> There is none to be found.
He was pretty sane and conscious of what he did.

Answer 9

Although many people have discussed + written on the issue, no conclusion has been reached on why Hitler ordered the Holocaust or "final solution."

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Answer 10

He didn't do it for personal gain, in his eyes he done it for the german people. He considered them a parisitic race, that should be removed from any forms of power in the world. Hitler very much believed that life is survival of the fittest and that it was natural process that the lesser race should be defeated.