Hitler's anti-Semitism grew out of his Christian education. Christian Austria and Germany in his time took for granted the belief that Jews held an inferior status to Aryan Christians. Jewish hatred did not spring from Hitler, it came from the preaching of Catholic priests and Protestant ministers throughout Germany for hundreds of years. The Protestant leader, Martin Luther, himself, held a livid hatred for Jews and their Jewish religion. In his book, "On the Jews and their Lies," Luther set the standard for Jewish hatred in Protestant Germany up until World War II. Hitler expressed a great admiration for Martin Luther.
This explains his references to jews in his works such as these:
"My feelings as a Christian points me to my Lord and Savior as a fighter. It points me to the man who once in loneliness, surrounded by a few followers, recognized these Jews for what they were and summoned men to fight against them and who, God's truth! was greatest not as a sufferer but as a fighter. In boundless love as a Christian and as a man I read through the passage which tells us how the Lord at last rose in His might and seized the scourge to drive out of the Temple the brood of vipers and adders. How terrific was His fight for the world against the Jewish poison. To-day, after two thousand years, with deepest emotion I recognize more profoundly than ever before the fact that it was for this that He had to shed His blood upon the Cross. As a Christian I have no duty to allow myself to be cheated, but I have the duty to be a fighter for truth and justice... And if there is anything which could demonstrate that we are acting rightly it is the distress that daily grows. For as a Christian I have also a duty to my own people.
-Adolf Hitler, in a speech on 12 April 1922 (Norman H. Baynes, ed. The Speeches of Adolf Hitler, April 1922-August 1939, Vol. 1 of 2, pp. 19-20, Oxford University Press, 1942)
"At the beginning of the Great War, or even during the War, if twelve or fifteen thousand of these Jews who were corrupting the nation had been forced to submit to poison-gas ... then the millions of sacrifices made at the front would not have been in vain."
(Mein Kampf, Volume 2, Chapter 15 "The Right to Self-Defence").
2007-05-08 04:54:03
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answered by Marvinator 7
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"By defending myself against the Jew, I am fighting for the work of the Lord" (Mein Kampf)
http://www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/jsource/Holocaust/hitlertoc.html
Adolf Hitler also equated Judiasm with Bolshevism which was the newly formed government in Russia. So he claimed that by squashing Judiasm you also scotched creeping Bolshevism.
Hitler was also a shameless poltical opportunist who would say anything, do anything, or change positions midstream, and anything else that took to get elected or achieve power.
2007-05-08 11:59:21
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answered by Anonymous
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"As a Christian I have no duty to allow myself to be cheated, but I have the duty to be a fighter for truth and justice. "
"By the skillful and sustained use of propaganda, one can make a people see even heaven as hell or an extremely wretched life as paradise. "
"I believe today that my conduct is in accordance with the will of the Almighty Creator. "
"I do not see why man should not be just as cruel as nature. "
"Those who want to live, let them fight, and those who do not want to fight in this world of eternal struggle do not deserve to live."
Adolf Hitler
2007-05-08 12:15:27
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answered by Mrs. Mark 2
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"By resisting the Jews I fight for the Lord"
Mein Kampf Volume 1
2007-05-08 12:09:55
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answered by Anonymous
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There is no such thing. Hitler was a good guy that loved Germany and wanted to keep the Zionist bankers from destroying his country the way they have America and the rest of the world.
2007-05-08 11:52:22
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answered by Anonymous
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just the tip
2014-01-16 13:46:10
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answered by Confused human 1
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