Was the holocaust a reaction to centuries of abuse?

Question

During the Middle Ages, Jews used their commercial muscle to force women into prostitution and slavery. It's well documented that Jews will enslave Germanic women and sell them to the Arabs as sex slaves. If that were to happen to my sister...

"Columns of slaves feeding the great harems of Cordoba, Seville and Grenada were organised by Jewish merchants (mercaderes) from Germanic countries and parts of Northern Europe not controlled by the Carolingian Empire. These columns crossed the Rhône valley to reach the lands to the south of the Pyrenees."


Found in http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arab_slave_trade

Answer 1

I doubt that it stemmed from the middle ages. Hitler looked at Jews as inferior people. He hated them for some inexplicable reason. He felt that if he could rid Germany of all the Jews (and a lot of polish people) he could build what he called the master race. Pure German people. No inbreeding, no mixed ancestry, just pure blond hair, blue eyed German people.
But the problem was how to get rid of all the Jews.
He was born in Austria at the end of the 19th century. Enough to make him have antisemitic views.

But Hitler's passion for antisemitism was something more than just his upbringing. There is little indication in his correspondance or his friend's and relative's memories that he strongly believed in a Jewish plot to destroy Germany until 1919. Part of his antisemitism in this case is psychological, news of the war's end and Germany's loss came to Hitler when he was half blind in Pasewalk hospital, which would have increased the blow. Ludendorff's stab in the back theory (the belief that the Jews were responsible for the end of the war) had a big impact on Hitler (what soldier wouldn't be influenced by his top commander?), and the Jewish involvement in the communist uprisings and the later hated Weimar Republic would have cemented this in Hitler's mind. And for a guy who was pretty much a homeless failure before the war, a hero during it, andprobably would return to the homeless failure afterwards unless he did something, Hitler would have been looking for someone to blame.
He managed to rally the german people against the Jews and had the army gather them up and put them in camps. The rest is history.
But it should be noted that Hitlers father was half jewish himself. That probably added fuel to the fire.

Answer 2

Hey, dork- I think you already posted this question...

The Holocaust was Hitler's way to rid the earth of a people he believed to be bringing down the human race... He was mentally unstable. A genius with a crowd, but still a nutjob.

Adolf Hitler had a gift- Public speaking. He could speak to a crowd and bring the men to tears and the women to orgasm... at least that's what it looks like in the old films. He persuaded the German people that the Jews were a danger to the "great" German way of life. He talked the average German into believing that it was his/her patriotic duty to turn in all Jews. He convinced the German public to turn a blind eye to their neighbors' unexplained disappearances.

Most Germans were not aware of what was going on in their own back yards. The populace didn't know about the gas chambers, the death camps, etc.... and the few that did were either so brainwashed by Hitler's rhetoric that they approved and agreed with what happened or saw it for what it was but were in so deep they'd be forced to join the Jews if they said anything.

The Holocaust was the brainchild of a mentally ill man.

Answer 3

And incorrect. Hitler and his henchmen caused the holocaust. You've listened to white supremacist propaganda about Jews. The ones I have known have been nice and good people. Hitler rounded up and mercilessly murdered 6,000,000 Jews and about the same amount of gypsies, German political enemies and retarded people, Polish, Russian, French, and other conquered countries soldiers, a few Christians.
Holocaust means "great or total destruction, esp. by fire." Concentration Camps killed by firing squads, individual executions, and thrown into pits dug by the ones who were thrown in dead. They were herded into big sealed rooms and gassed by diesel fumes or poison gasses and the bodies burned in furnaces built for that. if the prisoner oven loaders faltered or fell, they were thrown in alive and somebody else pulled out of the death line to sling bodies. Allied soldiers found acres of empty warehouses and still burning ovens. They found a smaller amount of warehouses filled with starving diseased skeletal survivors, some just minutes from death, but thrilled to be alive in freedom before they died.
And Hitler was born a Jew!
And the Jewish people are still fighting for their lives.

Answer 4

And so has every other culture or society that had power over another in any way, whether it be economic or militarily....I dont see your argument as valid for that reason. Look up what the Japanese did to Chinese women during the occupation of China. Take the time to educate yourself before spouting a disgusting and prejudiced point of view. and no i'm not jewish, as if that should matter but i just wanted to throw it in so you cant use that as an excuse to write off my argument.

Answer 5

First of all...the word Holocaust means "Great destruction resulting in the extensive loss of life..." so why must EVERY TIME people mention the word "holocaust" they think JEWS. What about the millions of africans that were put onto slave ships, beaten, tourtured, and killed? Thats a Holocaust as well since it is ALSO a "great destruction resulting in the extensive loss of life". If you are talking about the "Jewish Holocaust"...then thats one thing...but you catagorize the word Holocaust just for the jews.

Answer 6

could be part of the reason but the Jews also sold most black slaves. One thing to consider usury or interest the catholic church couldn't charge it but the Jews could so then when everyone hated the Jew the church would step in and take all the Jews crap as he wasn't a Xian therefore less than human the church helped the jew make a bad name for himself

Answer 7

During the middle ages alot of things happened. Does that say that every thing has to start with something else. Look up Hitlers 25 policies. or nazi parties 25 policies (in 1931?)

Answer 8

ah, another anti-semite! put a link here for all of us to read where you obtained your "facts." i dare you. are so many jews in germany now that COULD enslave / sell germanic women? why would arabs buy them? arabs only want women of islam, fool. how dare you say that jews would SELL anyone! are you a nazi, or are you one of those skinheads?

Answer 9

Your understanding of history is unique.

Answer 10

Unique is an understatement!