Why did Hitler hate the Jews......?

Question

It wasn't like one day in Germany they started to despise and kill all the Jews. It must had been an issue that had brewed for a while.

Thing is do you think Muslims are going this way. (British people will not take anymore of them just like Hitler did against the Jews?.. I'm not saying they will be killed but they will get less sympathy and wont get everything they're way)

I'm not racist just interested to see if Britain will have the breaking point where enough is enough, as did Germany.

Just to make it clear it was a terrible thing that Germany did. I'm just interested of the breaking point?

so it sounds like some of the Jews were causing some trouble just like some Muslims are!?

Answer 1

They were a convenient target to bring the German people together after WWI. Sounds like the rhetoric we hear about Christians in the USA today.

Answer 2

Luckily Britain hasn't been facing the conditions that Germany did between the wars which would make the citizenry amenable to throwing off centuries of civilization and be willing to strike out against a scapegoat.

The breaking point for Germany took several decades. After WWI the country was left with a ruined economy and infrastructure, with no faith in it's leaders, and with a shattered sense of national pride after what many considered unfair conditions imposed upon it by the victors. The people were then in a good position to listen to Hitler when he told them that all of their problems were the fault of the Jews. There is nothing to indicate that Britain is or ever will be near such a point where the people will take this attitude.

Answer 3

After Germany lost the 1st world war the country was in a bad way. In a strong christian society Jews were marginalised. The nazis hooked on to this marginalization and used propaganda to use the Jews as a scapegoat for all Germanys problems. I don't think that Muslims will ever be treated the same but i understand your point.

Answer 4

Jews or any minority group have always been used as a scapegoat by others to attain power. In the early 20th century in Britain (possible 1908) the "Jewish Card" was used - I think by the Tories to encourage people to vote for their party as a bar to the Liberal Party winning the election. The Tories at that time wanted to reduce immigration!!

Because of the continual Pogroms in Europe and Russia the East End of London had hundreds of Jewish immigrants who lived in self-proclaimed ghettos because of their different language/culture and the increasing numbers were thought to be a threat to the English working man. Needlesstosay, the Jewish Card was never actually used, but the Jewish immigrants were seen to be a threat just the same.

Hitler was just the same, the Jews were seen as a group that could be "blamed" for Germany's ills post WW1. By getting the working people to focus on something else, he was able to manipulate the people into believing all that he and others declared about the Jews and not really listen to what was being said.

His long-term plans were hidden - true he did give the Germany people work - the Autobahn (that was directed to the East NOT the West), the Volkswagen (people's car). Tractors and mechanical farming tools were forbidden and farming methods were taken back to an almost medieval age when people used their hands and simple tools. This lack of mechanization employed more people, that in turn increased food production. He became the German people's saviour because he gave them work and food - both of which was in short supply post WW1.

The Jews/Slavs because the focus of hate because of their independance, academic ability and wealth and this was translated to his henchmen and in turn the majority of the German believed that their situation was the result of Jewry.

Answer 5

If one goes back in in time to the early days of Christianity, one finds that charging of interest for loans was forbidden to Christians. Yet capitalism is impossible without the ability to borrow. Luckily for all of us today, Jews could lend money and so they did. Now we all dislike people who we owe money to, especially if we pay late or don't pay at all and we have a natural aversion to those better of than ourselves. Thus anti-semitism was born out of Christian greed and avarice.

Because the Jewish community tended to take care of its own, was thrifty and economical, the effect of the economic downturn of the Great Depression was less on the Jews of Germany than on the general population so Hitler was able to focus attention on the Jews and use them as a convenient target. Let us not forget he also went after Slavs, gypsies, 7th Day adventists and homosexuals as well.

There was never any breaking point where Germany said enough was enough. Laws and discrimination against Jews increased as time went by. But because of what Hitler did, it will never happen again. No one would dare recreate anything like the outrages of Nazi Germany in the democratic world ever again.

Answer 6

Because of the major defeat in WWI the Germans who were severely punished at the peace table needed someone to blame for their loss. In Hitler's eyes it should be the Jews who had some positions of power in Germany. It is interesting that the man who wrote the music that Germans went to war with was a Jew, the first winner of the Iron Cross (Germany's highest military honor) in WWI was a Jew, and the officer who recommended Hitler for the Iron Cross in WWI was a Jew. Its just easy when you lose to find some group you are not a part of to blame for the defeat and Hitler saw the Jews as this blame game.

Answer 7

History has a horrble habit of repeating itself purely on the grounds that people don't know about it and, therefore, don't recognise the awful repetition.
There are people who still don't recognise the horrors of racial extermination that existed in Hitler's Germany. If you .were Jewish, gypsy or disabled then god help you. Off you went to the camps to be exterminated or experimented on.

I would not like to think that the British people could ever sink so far as to link their fear of Islam in this way. Islam has its terrorists in this country but not all muslims are terrorist. Think about it, no Jews were terrorists in Germany and it is unlikely that we can say most muslims are terrorist in this country. Why don't we give them a break and accept this until proved otherwise? I do not, however, defend Islamic terrorists. Lock them up and throw away the key.
Edit: Frightening
that Joseph F seems to believe this crap

Answer 8

The breaking point for most nations is usually economic hard times (as was the case for Nazis hating Jews). So far things have been ok economically since the bulk of the Muslim immigration. Occasionally, demographics cause national stress but Muslims aren't projected to be a majority anywhere in Europe for a little while longer (2030 in the Netherlands?).

Answer 9

probably because the Jews controlled most of Germany's wealth when the German people were starving and unemployed. The same thing could happen here in the UK if the Muslims ever controlled the wealth of the country

Answer 10

Well, Hitler was a keen art student when he was little. It was stated that he loved art and wished to become an artish, his art teacher was a Jew. This person told Hitler he could never be an artist as he was basically poop. Also Hitler was jeleous of others around him, most jews owned big Businesses and he was poor so it could have stemmed from this

Answer 11

According to a German officer testifying at the Nuremberg trials, Hitler was 3/4's Jewish, which was Hitler's definition of a Jew. His grandmother worked for a Jewish family and became impregnated by one of the sons and she bore an illegitimate child. Hitler is said to have applied to one of the Jewish Art academies and was rejected. The Jews claim that the Jewish family name given by the German officer was false and there never was a Jewish family by that name in that region that Hitler's grandmother lived in.