Why was Germany Willing To Accept Hitler as their dictator and to use the Jews as a Scapegoat?

Answer 1

After WWI Germany was a beaten nation, very poor, in debt, with crushing inflation and unemployment. It's a natural human tendency to latch onto those who give you hope and to blame others for your misfortune. Hitler provided both. His ascent to prominence and power was a message of German pride and power - something people were looking for. HIs message of hat eand antisemitism gave people a place to direct their anger. Mind you, none of this is an excuse for any of it, but rather an explanation of a human tendencies.

Answer 2

After WWI, Germany was largely blamed for the entire war and was treated rather harshly by the Allies. They got slapped with a few million dollars in reparations for the war, weren't allowed to have a military any more, and were essentially blamed for starting the war. Not long after that, Germany (along with the rest of the world) got into a serious depression, which didn't make the Germans any happier. Like most human beings, they wanted someone to blame for their hard luck, and Hitler presented them with a plan to solve that problem. If he hadn't started the Holocaust, Hitler probably would've been remembered as a great German leader. He brought the country out of the depression and into a period of better times, so he already had the support of many people. Hitler decided to blame the Jews for the depression and the defeat in WWI, which made the Germans even happier because no they had someone to blame for all the bad things that had happened. I'm not saying that I agree with it, but that's sadly the way it was.

Answer 3

The concise answer:
Following the 1st world war and the treaty of Versailles Germany was left defeated and heavily indebted. Moreover, the leadership of the old order refused to take responsibility for the situation and the proud Prussian style Officer Core were more interested in making themselves look good than telling the truth and thus the lie of the"Army being stabbed in the back" by a 5th column of sorts. The Wiemar Republic which was a liberal well-fear experiment forced on the Germans by liberal foreigners, that couldn't get away with it in their own country's, was a failure and not seen as legitimate by the German people is one reason. Another is the France invasion of the Rhineland,this was agitated by the Wiemar's scams to avoid the repayments agreed to in the Treaty of Versailles, which was an assault on German Pride and it also helped to further undermined Wiemar.
Likely the biggest reason was the economic disaster caused by massive inflation, first with Wiemar's fee-et scheam to duke the victors and finaly when the US Stock market Crashed in 1929 which cuased US investors to start recalling the massive loans given to Germany following the 1st world war.
Moreover, their was great civil unrest becuase varius Socialist and Marxist groups had street fighters beating up opposition. One of these Marxist radicals even decleared a Communist Soveit (A Russian word for Concil-which was seen as anti-german nationalist and pro-internationalist-Russian prosy state) before she met her demise. One of the later formed political partys, The German Nationalist Socialist Workers Party, Nazis, gained power and Hitler (ITs substance) soon tured defeats like the Beer Hall Putch into PR victorys. Hitler had a vistion and a clear one and infighting between The Cristian Socialists and the Communist devide the left. The Right wing (Namly bussiness interests got assurences that they could controll hitler.) suppored Hitler and the Nazis in an attept to reestablish the Holenzola Monarchy. They wanted to controll Hitler but the opposite happened instead. (The Nazis are thought to be right wing becuase of this alinement with German Corparations. However, Hitler himself was a radical revolutionary which is by its nature left-wing and the Party would soon be Hitlers Party.)
O yes the intreegs of Van Popen too. As for the Jewish scapegoat its a popular one historicaly. However, the Jews have historicaly done it to other groups like the early Christians. However, what happened under Hitler was on such a mass scale that it should foever remain in the minds of men lest it happen again. And Jews that don't support Israel should remember how well they fear among the gentiles.

Answer 4

At the time of the Weimar Republic, Germany's government after WWI, inflation was rampant, and the reprisals the Allies had heaped on Germany was bankrupting it. People had to carry wheelbarrows of marks just to buy a loaf of bread. They were desperate, and Hitler played on that. He started with a truth--the German people are poor. He then used that to support a half truth--the Jews have money. Jews had traditionally never been permitted to own property, so many became shopkeepers, professionals and bankers. That meant the money the Germans had to spend on necessities sometimes went to Jewish shopkeepers, so it seemed sort of logical. But it didn't take into account that the money those shopkeepers were getting was almost worthless. After the German people accepted the half truth, Hitler then stated that the reason the German people did not have money was because the Jews were taking it away from them, and so if they got rid of the Jews, their country would be saved. Even though it doesn't make sense now, the people were desperate, and they latched on to anything that might help them. When their economy did start to improve, probably through no help from Hitler's version of voodoo economics, they began to consider him to be their savior.

Answer 5

The Germans were utterly defeated after WWI and the victorious powers (France, Britain, USA, USSR, et al) forced a "treaty" on the Germans ... The Treaty of Versailles that severely punished Germany for being the cause of WW I.

For several decades the average German lived a very poor life as a result of the terms of The Treaty of Versailles. They were downtrodden and demoralized with their existance.

A mesianic speaker (lunatic) Hitler emerged on the scene in Germany and told the German people that they were strong, that they were God's people and that they were destined to rise again. He would lead them. They believed him. They were desperate to improve their lives. The people were desperate to believe anything that would improve their poor lives. Hitler did many good things when he came into power ... the railroads became reliable, he built the first highway system ever before in the world (Autobahn) and restored pride in the average German.

Unfortunately for mankind and the German people, he also preached hate and the glorified war. He primarily chose the Jews as his subject of focus to hate on. Through the use of propaganda (a form of brain washing) he blamed the Jews for all of Germany's problems. The Jews became Hitler and Germany's "scapegoat".This definition of scapegoat comes from Websters on line dictionary: "someone punished for the errors of others". It became a sickness for the common German people. As their circumstances improved, they attributed everything good to Hitler. Everything that Hitler said was correct. No one could question him or his Nazi Party.

The rest is history. Read about it.

Answer 6

Actually, there have been several studies on this topic. I learned about it in my college psychology and cultural diversity classes. One theory was tested asking whether good average people could become torturous and evil under the power of a great authoritive figure. They tested this by taking volunteers for the study and divided them into two groups. Group A was the testers and Group B were the testees. The test was done in couples. One person in Group A would be matched up with one person in Group B. The "A" and "B" person would be separated into different rooms. The B person would be hooked up to electrodes and asked trivia questions from the A person, in which was listening and communicating through the use of speakers and microphones. The A person had control of the electrodes and every time the B person would get a question wrong they were to shock the B person with electricity increasing in voltage incriments slightly with each wrong answer. Little did the A people know, but the test was a fake and the B person wasn't really being shocked at all. The B Group was instructed to scream and act as if they were being shocked. On top of all of this one of the scientists was in the room with the A person instructing them, very authoritively, that they MUST finish the test. Almost every single Group A person went up and beyond voltages that would've killed the Group B person, had they really been shocked. This study among others have been confirmed as one reason to your question along with fear.

Answer 7

Jews As Scapegoats

Answer 8

Just like the goosestepping volunteers in Iraq reacted resentfully over our loss in Vietnam instead of mistrusting their leaders, the Germans were in denial about the slavishness that made them cannonfodder in World War I. A similar case in our future would happen if the Iraq vets conclude that even Bush was not right-wing enough to stop their scapegoats from preventing victory in this war; therefore they would want us to get rid of free speech and put all Democrats in death camps.

Fascism is not specifically antisemitic. If you can understand the true focus of "The Protocols of the Elder of Zion," it is really about the duty of the common people to enslave themselves to the spoiled aristocracy. Such an insulting attitude can only be effective by claiming that democracy is a Jewish idea, so that the common people shouldn't even think about it. They don't want people to even think it is a good idea taken over by Jews; the Nazis want to discredit it not through logic, but by playing on the people's prejudice that anything the Jews are associated with must be bad and shouldn't even be discussed.

Answer 9

Well Hitler was a sensational speaker. But what he was saying seem to be coming true- the wall street market crashed which started the great depression- these events led to the rise of the third reich. Also, his propaganda ministry was incredible for twisiting the truth. Hitler said " all you need to do is use propaganda, keep repeating the big lie and people will believe."

- The nazis had magnificant timing- they most likely set the Reichstag on fire- I'm sure of it- but blamed the communists. " When our group consisted of only seven men, we already had two idiologies: ONE, to make Germany great and two, too be the one and only PARTY OF GERMANY!." Hitler's speech 1939.

As well, communism had taken over Germany before, and while Hitler may have exaggerated the truth, he was never completely lying.

In his speeches he involved soo much history that it must have been true.

Answer 10

If you look up the story of the dibbuk box, you will find a shocking "reason". There are people who believe they caused the holocost by releasing demons into this world during seances.