Why did hitler put the blame on the jewish?

Question

What did they do to him?

Answer 1

Nothing. The Jews were simply a convenient group to scapegoat for Germany's problems. Most of the countries in Europe had latent anti-Semetic feelings, and so promising to do away with the Jews was an easy way to get Germany's conquests to accept a Nazi presence.

Answer 2

The Treaty of Versailles at the end of WW1 exacted heavy financial reparations from Germany and when coupled with the world wide depression of the 1920s combined to impoverish the country.
According to Hitler in his book 'Mein Kampf',the German Jews at the time were largely in control of what industry remained and, by definition a relatively affluent group,were reluctant to make what Hitler believed was a realistic contribution to the paying off of the country's debts.
It was a long held grudge of Hitler's that he never forgot.

Answer 3

Anti-semitism had a history in Europe long before Hitler ever showed up--long before Germany was even a country, for that matter.

More than being about religion, it was lots and lots of misunderstanding that led to lots and lots of mistrust. For instance, Jews, as a culture, were very clean. Good sanitation was just sort of embedded in how they did things. Well, in the cities, where everybody was crowded together, disease spread like crazy, but people began to notice that it often didn't strike Jewish quarters quite as hard is it struck everybody else. Their conclusion? The Jews are poisoning our wells!

And then there's the issue of money lending. The Christian Church used to forbid it, so the Jews would do it. Because they charged interest, which is obviously what you have to do to make a living lending money, Jews got a reputation as being greedy.

Anyway, there were all these little suspicions of Jews that were still lingering in the culture of Europe at the time Hitler was in power. Just because it had "always" sort of been that way and people always tend to teach their kids to be a little racist. At any rate, that made the Jews an easy enemy for Hitler to pin the problems of Germany on. It made him look like he had all the answers. If he could blame the Jews, and then promise to get rid of them, he'd be the hero. It wasn't just Jews though. Half the people who died in concentration camps were non Jewish. But they were all types of people who were easy to make into enemies because people sort of had a latent bias against them. Like gypsies, for example.

That's not to say Hitler was wise to his own game and just putting on a show. He'd convinced even himself that the Jews and gypsies and whoever else were the problem. People will do anything to give themselves easy answers.

Answer 4

Jews were some of the most prominent leaders of the Marxist and Communist movements that lead to the weakening of German home-front morale during the first World War. Among the prominent Jews were:
Karl Marx and Frederich Engels the founders of communism were Jews.
During the World War these prominent Jews were leaders of Marxist or Communist organizations:
Rosa Luxemburg
Karl Liebknecht
Kurt Eisner (more of a playwright than a politician!)
There were certainly more that it made the logical conclusion that all Jews were traitors to the fatherland and an internal threat.

Answer 5

Nothing, really.

In a way, asking that question credits Hitler and the Nazi party with using logic.

Anti-semetism (prejudice against Jews) has been around forever. It's likely he grew up among people who were anti-semetic. He took that, and applied it to what he felt was an unfair lot in life.

Not to mention, Hitler was most likely clinically insane. He also used drugs, and was injected with goodness knows how many toxins by his personal physician, all in the name of good health and modern science. He was not the picture of Aryan perfection that he claimed he was, and that he claimed was the Master Race.

There is even some evidence that he was part Jewish himself.

The mix of paranoia, extreme prejudice, discontent, insanity and self-loathing mixed with self-worshipping led him to be the man he was.

It shouldn't be ignored, though, that Hitler was ELECTED into office. He wasn't the only one who harbored prejudice against the Jewish people, and the people of Germany put him in power, with all his flaws. Many of them were horrified when he revealed his true plans, but enough of them were swayed by him and his rants to give him the power to use every resource he had at his disposal (and he ended up having unlimited resources) to act out his hatred and insanity.




Oh, and Bob.... get your story straight. The death of Christ never entered into the hatred of the Jews by most people. They hated the power and wealth many Jews had more than the fact that they believed the Jews killed Christ.

Answer 6

Well apart from the above answers there is the story that he got syphilis from a Jewish prostitute. He seems to have had a thing about syphilis devoting about ten tedious turgid pages of Mein Kamph to the subject saying it was the struggle of the of the nation to defeat this disease.

Answer 7

Hitler wanted a divine race and he thought the Jewish tarnished that. Also, the Jewish were very successful with their businesses and Hitler hated that. There is more to it, but it would take me all day to talk about it.

Answer 8

after WW1 the league of nations (the first form of the UN) made germany pay money for the damage they did to europe. This was a very harsh punishement and it put Germany into poverty for decades. The jews got blamed 'cause they were the ones that were extracting the money.

Answer 9

dude first of all let me tell u some thing very few ppl know and i dont expect u to believe but the fact is that hitler was himself jewish.yes thats right.he had jewish parents who left him to die in the streets at a very young age.he was picked up by a guy who was against jews and he was the one who polluted hitlers mind at a very young age.hitler grew up thinking that the jews were responsible for his condition and that all the jews were like his parents and he thought that the jews were a threat to the purity of the aryans.thats why he killed them in large numbers.

Answer 10

I feel he wanted to get back at the Jews because of his parents, they were Jewish, and he was abanded by them, also I feel he felt the threat from them, he was a very intelligent, but stupid person.