2007-12-04 06:11:34 · 10 answers · asked by Linda-chica 1 in Arts & Humanities ➔ History
Many reasons, but here are a few.
1) The Jews were considered an unclean and impure race by Hitler (and later other Germans). Hitler's vision was a nation of pure anglo people, which, in his mind, would ensure superior genes, intelligence and power. Anyone considered impure -- the Jews, Gypsies, homosexuals and a myriad of other types of people -- were systematically herded into ghettos and subsequently concentration camps.
2) Hitler blamed the Jews for all of Germany's losses in World War I.
3) One theory on this is that Hitler seeked revenge on the Jews because he was full of hate and discontent for his father, who was half-Jewish, for abandoning him (at a very young age) & his mother. It was rumored that his biological grandfather was a Jew who employed his grandmother as a housekeeper. There has never been any proof of this and no serious researcher believes it.
4) Anti-Semitism is traced back as far as the fourth century B.C. To understand the Holocaust you have to understand the Darwinian biology of the time. There was a growing sense, particularly since Ernst Haeckel, that there were those in society who were 'biologically' inferior and that for a 'fit' world to survive and thrive, those who were 'unfit' should be done away with. Instead of letting nature take its course, there was a unspoken sense that humans could take matters into their own hands. I am obviously not supporting this twisted logic, but that is a key to understanding how a number of things converged to create the nightmare of the century.
5) This Hitler quote explain his reasoning: “I set the Aryan and the Jew against each other; and if I call one of them a human being I must call the other something else. The two are as widely separated as man and beast. Not that I would call the Jew a beast. He is much further from the beasts than we Aryans. He is a creature outside nature.”
6) Another quote: “There cannot be two Chosen People. We are God’s People.”
I personally think he was power hungry and used whatever ideas he could to rally the German people to his cause. I am not a Goldhagenist (Hitler's Willing Executioner) beleiving that every German hated Jews, but very few prominent German's tried to stop the death camps so it is easy to see his point.
2007-12-04 06:32:00 · answer #1 · answered by LAN Lord 3 · 3⤊ 1⤋
How can there ever be a justified explanation for killing on an commercial scale for something? And the Germans did no longer have a "Jewish situation". They - or to be greater precise, a definite faction between them - have been merely prejudiced. The Jews weren't the only victims of the holocaust - Slavs, gypsies, the disabled, homosexuals, those with the "incorrect" political ideals, freemasons - everyone the Nazis disapproved of grew to become victims. in certainty, i'm a great deal bowled over that this type of question is additionally asked.
2016-10-19 03:43:15 · answer #2 · answered by ? 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
One reason is because Hitler was a follower of of the quack science of eugenics and Jews were a group of Germany that Hitler felt needed to be ethnically cleansed. The unemployed, homeless, political dissidents and homosexuals are often over-looked because the media tends to only focus on Jews.
Hitler was only a pawn carrying out a higher agenda. The eugenics movement and exterminationism today exists worldwide, even in Israel.
2007-12-04 06:22:38 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 3⤋
Nazis didn't need a reason. They would persecute anyone who appeared to be incompatible with their vision of a perfect world. Jews, Gypsies, Blacks, gays, and mental patients were some of their favorite targets...
2007-12-04 06:23:27 · answer #4 · answered by NC 7 · 3⤊ 2⤋
it was because the nazis thought that the jews were the reason of germany's problems that's why he lead the holocaust.
2007-12-04 06:30:51 · answer #5 · answered by demoskratos6991 2 · 1⤊ 2⤋
They tend to be greedy
They tend to be heartless
They tend to be selfish
They have big nose
In case you didn't realise, that was a joke.....;-)
I have a few jewish friends, I love them and they are so smart as to not take this kind of stuff the wrong way. They are good when it comes to laughing at themselves.....
2007-12-04 06:40:52 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 2⤋
Hate, hate, hate, and need of a scapegoat
2007-12-04 08:37:48 · answer #7 · answered by Der Schreckliche 4 · 1⤊ 2⤋
hitler-hitler-hitler-hitler
2007-12-04 06:20:09 · answer #8 · answered by Winnie 5 · 1⤊ 2⤋
Read Mein Kampf.
Learn spell check, proper punctuation and grammar - and a "PLEASE" sure would be appreciated.
2007-12-04 06:23:48 · answer #9 · answered by Sprouts Mom 4 · 1⤊ 3⤋
http://wiki.answers.com/Q/Why_did_Hitler_and_the_Nazis_hate_Jews_and_try_to_kill_them
2007-12-04 06:16:39 · answer #10 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 4⤋