I don't get it.. WHY DID HITLER HATE JEWS IN THE FIRST PLACE????

Answer 1

Antisemitism is a common feeling to european sociesties since the middle ages. It bases on several traditions, as the "fact", that Jesus had been crucified because of jews, rumors about sacrifice rituals on easter, envy to those jews, who gained money by giving credits (which was forbidden for christs) and so on. Discrimination and massacres on jewish people are a constant in european history.
Following to the discoveries of Darwin in the 19th century, the idea of different human races was added to these terms, and referring to the traditions of their beliefs, jews were supposed to form one.

This mixture of racial thinking, envy to the "international financial judaism" and old bible stories was the basic of the antisemitism of the 20th century.

It's hard to say, if Hitler believed what he shouted or if he used it as a demagogic instrument, but he was extremely consequent about it. Still some cases are reported, when jews, who were very loyal to the system became "aryans by honor", as well as the quotation "I decide about who's a jew."

In any case, hate towards jews was a feeling shared by many people in these times.

Answer 2

As others have said, it was easy and convenient to prosecute Jews, most societies were against them at that time.

Also, Hitler wanted to build propoganda to convince the Germans. Germany had to pay a hefty amount of money, according to the Treaty of Versailles, leading to an economic crisis. Since most money related jobs ( like banking ) were owned by Jews, since they couldn't own land, Hitler blamed the Jews for the crisis.

Of course, this is other than the fact that obviously he was a prejudiced man, and there really are no rational basis for prejudices.

Answer 3

In order for him to achieve power in Germany he had to unite the people behind them. The quickest way to unite a population is to have a common enemy (see us after 9-11) Hitler blamed the Jews for everything that was wrong with post WWI Germany and used lies and propoganda to convince people he was right and he was swept into power

Answer 4

~For the kinds of reasons that Nathan Bedford Forrest hated Blacks or mid-twentieth century Americans were convinced to hate goooks and slants and the 'Yellow Peril", why 18th century Americans were convinced that "The only good Indian is a dead one" or that in the 50's, 60's and 70's 'The only good commie is one that's dead', or that Joe McCarthy and aid Bobby Kennedy were able to destroy so many lives with the 'Red Scare' through their abuse of HUAC or that contemporary Americans have been duped into believing the invasions of Afghanistan and Iraq are moral, legal, justified and have a snowball's chance in hell of being successful or that all Muslims are evil, irrational terrorists or that Korea or Iran pose such a threat to world peace that they should be bombed back to the stone age or nuked into sheets of glass. Read "Mein Kampf" and reliable biographies of Hitler, and consider them in the context of the times, while taking into account 2000 years of anti-Jewish propaganda from the political and ruling elite of Europe, coupled with the dogma during the same period as spewed from the Vatican. Mostly, it boils down to what happens when one is to lazy to research and to learn and is too eager to accept the mythology and lies and bull that one likes to hear because it supports ones preferred albeit groundless and generally incorrect conclusions. When Goebbles or Tass or Pravda does it, we call it propaganda. When it comes out of Fox News or CNN or Washington or US history books, we call it truth and fact. So it goes.

And please, when you refer to Hitler's prejudices, don't call him 'anti-Semitic'. There are, and always have been, more non-Jewish Semites in the world than there are Jewish ones. And leave us not forget that the Jews represent a small minority of those who were murdered by Himmler and Heydrich in the quest for racial purity [the Jews have just had better post-war publicity people]. And always bear in mind that Andy Jackson, Marty Van Buren and the US Bureau of Indian Affairs did a far more complete job of racial cleansing on the Plains than did the Nazis in Poland or on the Ukraine.

Answer 5

What is there to get? Is hatred rational why rationalize hatred? Beyond blathering about anti-Semitism in Europe and justifications for such by much of the population the situation in Germany during the 1920s and 30s was that the Jews were a convenient target. Amidst rehetoric about Terrorist Attacks by Jewish Bolsheviks (think Liberal Democrats now), it was convenient to Target Jews and to use hatred fear ignorance to justify confiscating their meagre wealth and to kill them.

Peace....................... o o o o o v v v v v u u u u

Answer 6

Hitler's hatred of the jews was perfectly normal in the society in which he lived.
The christians of Europe and Russia had a long history of persecuting jews, they called them christ killers and resented the fact that they considered themselves god's chosen people and kept themselves racially seperate.

Answer 7

Hitler didn't just hate Jews, he hated anyone who didn't share his perverted, twisted and narrow minded point of view.

The man was a cretin.

Answer 8

Because he believed that they were the cause for the German loss of World War 1 to the Allies. So he went about removing them by an means to purify the German nation.

Answer 9

It is my understanding, subject ALWAYS to correction, that he became infected at an early age with the "bad" disease from a Jewish prostitute?