If the German lost WW1, then how was Hitler able to accomplish the extermination of so many Jews?

Answer 1

It was during the Third Reich and WW2 that he accomplished that. And how? Inhumane conditions in concentration camps leading to typhus and other sicknesses, gas chambers, shooting, starvation, death marches..

The war didn't just last a couple of days, it lasted 6 years (1939 - 1945)

There was a huge political propaganda created by Hitler against the jews. You can find original videos from that at Google videos and videos of the holocaust at youtube. People were afraid to take jews into hiding. Jews also had to wear the star of David on them so that they could be distinguished. Initially they were put into ghettos and then sent to concentration camps. Many went into hiding but lot's of them were given away. It was a really sad time for humanity.

Answer 2

As Hatikvah said, Hitler was trying to create a dominate race, he was "weeding" out all the bad blood (like one does with breeding animals) He used the theory of Darwin to justify his "weeding". Many of the Germans didn't quite understand what happened to the Jews and other 'unclean' races, at one point Hitler released 'footage' from the concentration camps showing the families having a picnic, playing and eating plenty of good food, Hitler said that he was just putting the people in a secure area to keep them away from the Germans. The who disagreed with Hitlers plan, and vocally stated so usually disappeared without any trace. This made many people not question anymore. Also if you noticed most of the camps were not in the major parts of Germany, most were in Poland and other countries where the Third Reich were living. One last point on the people, at the end when the US closed the camps, they made all people surrounding the camps come and walk through. In their footage it shows the men and women walking into the camp talking as if they were taking a walk, when they exited most were crying, in a daze and horrified. For the running of the camp there were stages the guards went through so they didn't care anymore. Many were survivors from the front and they went through different parts of the camps in a way they got to the point that they didn't care anymore. Yes fear was more powerful than their beliefs. If you ever have a chance to visit any camp, do so they have powerful videos which show how Hitler got away with what he did. And shows how so many people didn't know what happened.

Answer 3

In a nutshell, after WW1 a lot of German people were humiliated by their loss. To add insult to injury the Treaty of Versailes humiliated and economically strangled the German people. Hitler with his book Mein Kampf http://www.hitler.org/writings/Mein_Kampf/
infused back into the spirit of the German people pride, nationalism, economic recovery, and easily pursuaded the German people into scapegoating the Jews as the reason for Germany's downfall following WW1.

Answer 4

First of all, the extermination of the Jews happened in World War 2, not WW1...

After Germany lost WW1, the country went into economic and moral chaos... The depression hit hard, inflation hit hard ( there is a famous picture of a man with a cart full of money, using it to buy bread)...

Right wing parties emerged, demanding a return to honor... And some of those right wing parties, like the NATIONAL SOCIALISTS ( Nazi ) used the jews, among others, as scapegoats for Germany´s problems... Jewish bankers, jewish communists were partly to blame according to Hitler and the Nazis... You have to understand, anti-semitism was rampant in Europe for many reasons. One was the Church who said the Jews were Christ killers, another was a bogus book called THE PROTOCOL OF THE ELDERS OF ZION, ( it was a hoak), which stated that the Jews were involved in a world wide conspiracy to dominate the world.

So, Hilter used both religious, financial and traditional anti-semitism to blame the jews for all that was wrong with Germany. They also sold another bill of goods to the German people, the racial theory, that the jews weren´t human, they were an inferior race.

Now, add that all up, and suddenly Hitler is in power.

During the start of his reign as chancellor of Germany, the final solution ( the murder of jews) didn't start... They began b y deporting jews from Germany and herding the jews into ghettos... As the war started, they started killing jews in Russia, and sending them to ghettos.

However, when the U.S. entered the war, after Pearl Harbor, the Nazis had alot of problems on their hands... a two front war plus all these undesirable jews in ghettos.

Hitler gave the order, and the Wansee conference was held, chaired by Richard Heydrich.... That was when the words final solution was first spoken... They had decided that the JEWS of europe were to be liquidated, they were a drain on Germany;

So from 1942 to 1945, even losing the war, the Germans fanatically and systemically drained the ghettos, sending the jews to killing factories like Auschwitz, Bergen Belsen, Sobibor, Chelmo.

How did they do it? Like I said, anti semitism was strident in Europe, Poles, Chezcks, Slovaks, Lithuanians, Albanians, Rumanians all co operated with the Nazis.

The Allies, who knew about the concentration camps, refused to bomb rail lines leading to the camps, and the reason until today is unknown.

Hope that answers your question.... Hitler and Company set up assembly line murdering, with poison gas, crematoriums, and had the co operation of local populations in their task.

Answer 5

A lot can happen in a quarter century. Germany was being bled dry by late 1918, but they were not defeated in the field, and they probably would have fought on had they realized how onerous the terms of the Treaty of Versailles would be. By that time, they'd demobilized and didn't have the option of resuming hostilities. This meant that political leaders took the loss, but the German army never lost the support of the people, and by late 1941 it appeared that perception was correct, as the Feldgrau uniform was visible in almost all of Europe as well as Africa, and it seemed that they might not be stoppable.

Answer 6

Germans loss off WWI set off a financial crisis in Germany. I've answered in another question as to why he exterminated the Jews, but the simple answer is that to build unity into his new reich he had to have an enemy. The Jews were it, in the sense which we can understand, because they had a lot of wealth to get out of them. In the religious sense because Hitler hated God.

Answer 7

BECAUSE they lost ww1 hitler was able to start ww2 and the japanese got the u.s. involved when they bombed pearl harbor.
it is important that you study history, so you can learn to discern the truth from the lies, and so you may be able to atleast see how mankind keeps repeating the same mistakes...thinking "it won't blow up in my face THIS time..."
humanity is insanity.

Answer 8

I think you are getting your wars mixed up. Hitler was the leader in the second world war.