Why did Hitler hated the Jews and what are his methods of killing them?

Question

Need some infomation for my holocaust project.

Answer 1

This question cannot be answered (to my satisfaction, at least) on Yahoo Answers!. There are too many variables that must be taken into account. However, here is some general information regarding the question, followed by a short list of books that could help answer your query better.

***Anti-Semitism***
Hatred for followers of the Jewish religion has dated back pretty much since the creation of Judaism. However, this hatred was augmented with the Crusades, and has lingered in Europe and the Middle East (and later the U.S.) ever since. While Hitler was not unique in his Anti-Semitism, his leadership of Germany and the National Socialists makes his hatred stand out. Anti-Semitic hatred was the climate of Europe at the time. There is no reasoning behind hatred of any kind, so the first part of your question is unanswerable. *No one* knows why Hitler hated the Jews, only that this hate was translated into anti-Jewish German legislation. Jews were not targeted because of any physical characteristics (i.e. dark hair and eyes), per se, but rather because they had at least one Jewish parent or grandparent.

***Methods of Genocide***
Please note that Hitler did not, himself, perform mass murder, but rather these killings were conducted National Socialist officers and those working on their behalf (for whatever reason). In fact, there is no direct evidence to indicate that Hitler ordered the enactment of the Final Solution to the Jewish Problem (of course, it is likely that he did). The methods of genocide were varied, including (but in no way limited to) gassing, firing squad, starvation, and "scientific" experimentation.

***Recommended Reading***
* The Third Reich: A New History - By Michael Burleigh
* Oxford Reader: Nazism - Edited by Neil Gregor
* The Survivor: An Anatomy of Life in the Death Camps - By Terrence Des Pres
* Conscience & Courage: Rescuers of Jews during the Holocaust - By Eva Fogelman

Answer 2

What you must undertsand is that Germany wa sin an economic deoression. People were jobless and people were starving. Hitler's fascist government took control because of these times. And if a fascist government takes control, then it needs a scapegoat. Someone it can blame for losing WWI. Hitler was already was an anti-semite. He was staunchily opposed to Communists too and had many of them killed before he became the top dog of Germany. He blamed the Commies and the Jewish people for bring germany, which had been powerful and great into a horrible depression.
Many camps were set up in Nazi territory and many Jews were killed. The soldiers treated them no better than rats. Sometimes shhoting them for fun. Starvation struck often in these camops and horrible conditions lead to disease and many as the nazi's called them "sub-human" deaths. The most well known method was lining them up and directing them to two showers houses one group would go into one, another group would go into another. Once shower was actually a gas chamber and all the occupants would by smothered by poisonous gases. The other group in the other shower would be cleaned by water instead of poison.
Hope i helped you.
Good luck on your project

Answer 3

If you are doing this as a school project, you should really read more about this. You will not get a complete answer of why he hated the Jews here on Yahoo answers.

As far as killing them, there were too many ways to count. The most popular was to put them into mass gas chambers and release Zyklon B gas. Once they were killed, the bodies were burned in mass ovens.

But often times the concentration camps would run out of the deadly gas so they would just put people in the ovens ALIVE and turn them on.

Of course there were hundreds of other ways they were killed. You should really do more research on this.

Answer 4

I'm not sure anyone has ever really figured out why he hated Jews. There has been a lot written about that. And speculation that Hitlers own father may have bee Jewish or half Jewish. One theory is that the doctor who was treating his mother when she died, I believe of cancer, was Jewish and Hitler blamed him for his mothers death.

Hitler also blamed the Jews for the economy in Germany after WWI. The interesting part about that is that Hitler wasn't even German, he was Austrian but he had joined the German Army during the first war and was angry that Germany basically went bankrupt trying to repay war reparations after the Versailles Treaty was signed.

Early on the methods of killing Jews were lining them up and shooting them, among others but that was probably most common. However, shooting them became inconvenient because it took too long to kill thousands of Jews at a time. Not to mention, when they started getting shot at, a good number of them tried to escape. That is how the gas chambers were born. It was a lot easier to herd a couple hundred people into a locked room and poison them. There was no escape and they all just conveniently died.

Hitler had other methods of killing too but he usually reserved his torture methods for people he was mad at or people he felt had betrayed him.

Answer 5

It's very simple Hitler blamed Jews because he thought that Jews were the ones that gave Germany's loss for World
War I and it's failing economy. At the beginning of Hitlers speeches, tens of thousands of Jews were fired from their jobs and banned from universities. Jewish businesses were marked with stars in the window and often attacked and terrorized by hooligans. Children, women and men were taken to concentration camps. There they were starved to dead. The Nazi 's would often kill the in ovens. Approximately 5,978,000 Jews were murdered in Europe.

Answer 6

As faith is mentioned using fact the opiate of the masses, so is likewise one that provides wish to those that experience diminished, and who can provide his rhetoric with air of secrecy yet tempered with capability. After international conflict a million the defeatist attitude of the German human beings become at an all time intense. the universal socioeconomic place on the time ought to ultimate be categorized as decrease center type. there become an exception, the Jewish community. Socialism flourishes on the theory-approximately equality for each individual and is a masks for wealth redistribution. Take from the wealthy provide to the undesirable. This become the inspiration of the dehumanization of the Jewish community. no longer something extra no longer something much less. each little thing else become opiate for the masses! only using fact the Swastika become an emblem of peace and solidarity for hundreds of years previous to Nazi Germany, few can seem at it now without hatred! This become no longer a lesson of Ishmael and Isaac.

Answer 7

hitler hated the Jews because he was just a racial and prejeduce man to begin with. But then he noticed that the Jews were making more money than everybody else, so he thought the Jews could be traced back to "all the right people's" money problems.

Methods of killing included shooting, surgerys, gassing, starvation, death march, and many many others

Answer 8

Hitler's method of "survival of the fittest" was interpreted as requiring racial purity and killing off "life unworthy of life." The first victims were crippled and retarded children on an order signed by Hitler. After a public outcry, Hitler made a show of ending this program, but the killings in fact continued.

Between 1939 and 1945, the SS, assisted by collaborationist governments and recruits from occupied countries, systematically killed about 11 million people, including about 6 million Jews,[17] in concentration camps, ghettos and mass executions, or through less systematic methods elsewhere. Besides being gassed to death, many also were purposefully killed off by starvation and disease while working as slave labourers (sometimes benefiting private German companies in the process, because of the low cost of such labour). Along with Jews, non-Jewish Poles (over 3 million of whom died), alleged communists or political opposition, members of resistance groups, resisting Roman Catholics and Protestants, homosexuals, Roma, the physically handicapped and mentally retarded, Soviet prisoners of war, Jehovah's Witnesses, anti-Nazi clergy, trade unionists, and psychiatric patients were killed. This industrial-scale genocide in Europe is referred to as the Holocaust (the term is also used by some authors in a narrower sense, to refer specifically to the unprecedented destruction of European Jewry). One of the biggest centres of mass-killing was the extermination camp complex of Auschwitz-Birkenau. Hitler never visited the concentration camps and did not speak publicly about the killing in precise terms.

The massacres that led to the coining of the word "genocide" (the Endlösung der jüdischen Frage or "Final Solution of the Jewish Question") were planned and ordered by leading Nazis, with Himmler playing a key role. While no specific order from Hitler authorizing the mass killing of the Jews has surfaced, there is documentation showing that he approved the Einsatzgruppen, killing squads that followed the German army through Poland and Russia. The evidence also suggests that in the fall of 1941 Himmler and Hitler decided upon mass extermination by gassing. During interrogations by Soviet intelligence officers declassified over fifty years later, Hitler's valet Heinz Linge and his military aide Otto Gunsche said Hitler had "pored over the first blueprints of gas chambers."

To make for smoother cooperation in the implementation of this "Final Solution", the Wannsee conference was held near Berlin on January 20, 1942, with fifteen senior officials participating, led by Reinhard Heydrich and Adolf Eichmann. The records of this meeting provide the clearest evidence of planning for the Holocaust. On February 22, Hitler was recorded saying to his associates, "we shall regain our health only by eliminating the Jews".

Answer 9

hitler killed all jews if they had black hair and brown eyes. he let the german ppl live or if a person had blonde hair and blue eyes. he would put them in gas chambers, line them up and have the nazis kill them, concentration camps, and many other grusome ways. some ppl say that his mother was jewish. which makes it wierd. hope i helped some.