Why did hitler hate the jews?

Question

I need this for my history class. :)

Answer 1

~Because he was the product of his times. He was not unique. He WAS in a position to do something about it (although the death camps were not his idea - they came from Heydrich and Himmler who used the US Bureau of Indian affairs as their model.)

After more than 1000 years of anti-Semitic (a misnomer, since a true anti-Semite would have to hate the Semitic Arabs as well) rantings by the church and the ruling classes of Europe, why would Hitler NOT hate the Jews. If his beliefs were all that foreign, then why did "The Ship of the Damned" have to return to Germany. Read some of the proclamations from other governments of the times. Hitler just said it a little louder and with a little more honesty.

Look no further than the Evian Conference. At an international conference convened to discuss the plight of the Jews, Roosevelt promised not to mention the British policies in the Mandate of Palestine as long as Churchill did not mention that the US was not allowing its quota of Jewish immigration to be filled. Roosevelt didn't even send a member of the government to the conference. It simply wasn't important enough and it was not a politically good idea to get mixed up in a discussion about Jews. After the conference, Golda Meir (she was there as a representative of the Palestinian Jews but she was not accorded credentials at the conference) said ""There is only one thing I hope to see before I die and that is that my people should not need expressions of sympathy anymore." Haim Weizman was so appalled that all he could say was "The world seemed to be divided into two parts – those places where the Jews could not live and those where they could not enter." World apathy in 1938 was all Hitler needed to plunge ahead full bore with "The Fianl Solution".

If you really want the answer, Hitler gives it too you. Read some of his speeches. Read "Mein Kampf". Then look at the man in the context of his times, giving a proper due to European history and eons of Europe's (and particularly the Pope's and the Christian's) treatment of the Jews. Go all the way back to Magna Carte and see how the Jews were treated as second class subjects there. Read about the Spanish Inquisition and see how the Jews were treated then. It starts before Rome was founded. Read about the Babylonians and see what they thought of the Jews. The Persians were somewhat more benevolent. (The irony of that should be self-evident: historically, the Aryans may have been kindest to the Jews.) The Jews are history's resilient scapegoat. Everyone has taken a piece of them at one time or another, but they survive.


There is no short answer to this question. To really understand it, you have to understand what was going on when the "Christians" separated themselves from the Jews, and then follow through on how the Christians increasingly demonized the Jews as their movement gained strength and numbers, especially after Constantine converted. It puts one in mind of a reformed smoker or drinker. Then add to that the shape Germany was in after the Treaty of Versailles in 1919 sowed the seeds of the Great Depression and WWII.

But don't condemn Hitler as the only one in the Western World who hated Jews in the 1930s. He was part of a majority. Condemn him for what he did, but even then, understand that which he did. The Death Camps were established for the Jews for the most part, but not exclusively so. Jasenovac was established for Serbs. Some Jews were murdered there, but they were a distinct minority. Although Jews represent about 80% of the 2.5 to 3 people who died in the death camps, the other half (or more) of the Jews who died at Nazi hands did so in the Concentration camps. About 18 million people died in both types of camps. The Jews constitute a vast minority of the total and many of those Jews would have been sent to the camps had they not been Jewish. I do not intend to minimize what the Nazis did to the Jews. I am just angered that all the other victims seem to have been forgotten.

And the Jews were only among the first intended victims. Had the Red Army not repelled Operation Barbarossa and then beat the Germans at Stalingrad, countless millions of Slavs, particularly from the Ukraine, would have been slaughtered just as the Poles already had been. The target number of Slavs to be sent to the camps was 30 million (contrast that to the fact that there were onlly about 11 million Jews in Europe in 1938). The Roma's didn't fare so well, but who cares about 'gypsies'. They all but became extinct. Russians and Poles were also targeted, then there were the political prisoners, intellects, communists, criminals and social undesirables for whom the concentration camps (another idea borrowed from Uncle Sam - modeled on Martin Van Buren's originals from 1838, but giving the British their due and using the name the Brits coined in South Africa in 1898) were originally built.

Don't kid yourself. Shortly after the death camps opened, irrefutable proof of what was going on was in London and Washington. They had pictures and first hand accounts from a few brave souls who sneaked into the camp disguised as SS guards, collected their evidence, and slipped back to England with their reports and pictures. There was no outcry, or even a whimper, of outrage from our fearless leaders.

Answer 2

I don't think he hated the Jews. He had no reason to.

But when he rose to power in Germany, his country was in shambles. This was brought about by Germany's defeat in World War I. Germany had to give big amounts of money for the damage it had wrought to several countries. These payments led to economic depression in Germany.

Unemployment was high, their money was almost worthless, and food was scarce. Hitler was clueless. But somehow, he thought, somebody should be blamed for this mess. He needed a convenient scapegoat. You guessed it right --- the Jews became his convenient scapegoat.

To his credit, Hitler was a great orator. He used this ability to convince his people that Germany would be great once again if it got rid of the "undesirables" (meaning the Jews). He was able to rally the people behind his "final solution to the Jewish question." The "final solution" was the almost total obliteration of Jews in Germany in particular and Europe in general. It was the sad story of the Holocaust.

Answer 3

Why does anyone hate anyone? It is an issue deeper than the notion of hate. Hitler exploited a hatred of Jews to seize & maintain power in Germany and may have succeeded World Wide if he was not a Complete Idiot.....

Hitler may have feared Jewish ancestry but that card is over played - - - the story about Hitler contracting a 'Social Disease' has been flipped by a homophobic society the original take was that teenage Hitler did what poor broke teenage boys do in inner cities for money, this was one of Julius Streicher's favorite tales, as a leading Nazi he delighted in telling this tale, in whispers of course, much like Repunlican Senators whould whisper about not taking the toilet stall next to Larry Craig's stall.
("All I know was there was a hand waving at me, so I got on my knees and prayed to J - - - - -")
It was convenient for Hitler to Hate Jews. It was sanctioned much like America's attitudes towards 'Blacks and Coloreds' and Asian an awfully hard category to categorize. Hitler hated Jews because Hitler was a hateful man and he felt compelled to Hate someone and society said it was o-k to hate.
In Europe during the 1930s if you were gonna Hate someone then you couldn't ho wrong hating Jews and if you were anyone but Hitler, such as a Herman Goering, you could even have Jewish Friends and only hate the rest of them...

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Answer 4

The reason is that because when his mother is sick, Hitler visited a Jew doctor. But the doctor refuses to treat his mother.
I cant remember if this results in the death of his mother or not.

Thus he hates Jew ever since.

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Answer 5

i don't know if this was because he hated Jews, but he believed in the supremacy of the Aryan race (blonde hair, blue eyes), even though Hitler himself was lacking blonde hair.
He needed to wipe out the Jews in order to 'cleanse German blood'.
Another reason is that his mother of whom he had an extreme love for was diagnosed with breast cancer, a Jewish doctor was supposed to be treating her and she died.
Also, his father, a drunkard who used to beat Hitler up, supposedly had some Jewish blood in him.

Or he was a maniac..

Take your choice !

Answer 6

I guess mainly cuz he was mental. He says himself that he first came up with the notion in Vienna--while living in a flophouse that ironically was funded by Jewish philanthropists. His mother's doctor was also Jewish, and he may have somehow or other blamed the guy for her early death (from cancer). Of course, all his embellishments in this area during later years were strictly his own improvisation (though it must be said that many thousands of extremists at the time shared these notions).

Answer 7

Hitler actually hated everyone different from them, such as gays and minorities.

Hitler targeted the Jews because he was jealous of teh hard work they did, and jealousy did kill someone, about 11 million.

Answer 8

Because he was a jew! No joke, I am pretty sure it was his father, i dont remember 100%, it was on history channel. His dad beat him when he was young, and he hated him. He was half jew and did everything possible to erase his memory of jews.

Answer 9

Because he blamed them for Germany losing WW1, because he believe they betrayed Germany. He also blamed them for the Depression in German because many Jews held jobs in banking. Also because he though they were an inferior race..

Answer 10

because jews are persevering hard working, they also are minorities that get jobs and doing good business.

he turned his hate to the jews out of frustration because he is a loser