If Nazis were atheist than why did they hate Judaism more than any other religion???

Question

My teacher said Nazis are atheist, but it doesn't add up in my mind. I asked him this but he couldn't give me a real answer. I know they were illogical, but what did they say was their reasons?

My teacher is actually from Germany... Thats really weird that he wouldn't know that, I knew it didn't really make sense.

Answer 1

Edit to ARNOLD K - you have just repeated the exact same lies that Hitler told the Germans. Like him, you too are utterly wrong. The Jews were not numerous; they were and are a tiny minority. And they were no more wealthy than many other Germans. Finally, they did NOT 'control' the financial markets - get your facts straight.

The Nazis were not atheists. Also, they had no problem with Judaism, but they hated and demonized Jewish people - and also gays, gypsies, and anyone who did not conform to the Aryan ideal.

Hitler plugged into the dormant anti semitism/anti Jewish feeling that existed not just in Germany, but also in Poland and also Austria. He was a charismatic speaker and managed to convince people that the Jews were to blame for any problems Germany was having.

The fact is, in pre Nazi Germany, the Jews were the most assimilated and intergrated that they had ever been. They were innocent citizens and Hitler attempted genocide against them - and he almost succeeded. Jews represent a tiny 0.01 per cent of the world population. SIX MILLION were wiped out by the Nazis in Europe - and Arab leaders were personal friends of Hitler and openly wanted to do the same to the Jews living in Palestine.

EDIT CHARLTON

Get your facts right. Hitler was not a quarter Jewish - he was not Jewish, period. This has been investigated ad infinitum and ANY historian will confirm what I say; Hitler was not Jewish. Don't repeat such idiocy.

Answer 2

Nazi's were not athiest..part of the Nazi movment also sought to imbrase Germanic paganism..Hitlaer called Christianity the worst trick the Jews ever played on humanity. The third riech had alot of ocault in their idology. Which is one of the reasons there have been some roumors circualting that Alister Crowly was hired by the British secret service as an advisor. The Jews were hated the most by Hitler becuse he like other Europeans at the time blamed them for every thing since he considered wealthy Jewish merchants and bankers to be the result of an evil consperacy which was an idea promited for centures by opressive European governments wanting to blame some one else for their looting of the public.
you might want to check out books like Hitler the black magican
or Hitler's Priestess: Savitri Devi, the Hindu-Aryan Myth, and Neo-Nazism
The Occult Roots of Nazism: Secret Aryan Cults and Their Influence on Nazi Ideology and Hitler and the Occult (Hardcover)
by Ken Anderson

Answer 3

Perhaps your teacher is feeling some guilt for the actions of the Nazi's. I spent nine years in Germany in the Army and found that talking about Hitler is or was a poor subject of conversation. There is a streak in all people that wants to blame something specific for their actions good or bad. My first landlord in Germany had been in the Nazi Party, was a tank driver on the Russian Front and a life long catholic. He was about the only one in Germany I ever found that was willing to talk to me about Hitler. It may have helped that I was also a tanker. Oh and he liked American ice cream and President Nixon. Go figure.

Answer 4

Nazis were socialists and blamed Jews for what Hitler called their having an Economic Stranglehold over Europe and in his strongest Ant-Jewish public speech said that if it this continued, The Jews would regret it.

Hitler and the Nazis were not all atheists and Hitler was a Catholic, Vegetarian and had an interest in Hindu philosophy hence the Swastika...One of India's most auspicious signs..
But he was also quite Mad.

The Christians had an ancient Vendetta against Jews who they blamed for the death of Jesus..and so persecuted them for nearly 2000 years.

Hitler was bit like Bush or Ariel Sharon and just as dangerous.

Answer 5

The Jewish people have been convenient scapegoats for a loooooong time (not that they're the only ones to suffer in history). It's always been fashionable to "blame the Jews" in the West for your own problems. If you look a little closer at history, the attitudes of the Nazis--while very extreme--were (and are) prevalent in a lot of European countries (I read somewhere that France had an even more anti-Semitic attitude than Hitler's Germany in the early 20th century)

Answer 6

>If Nazis were atheist

They weren't. Some were atheists, but I believe some were also christians, and some held paganistic beliefs about the old norse mythologies (Odin and the valkyries and so on).

>than why did they hate Judaism more than any other religion???

They didn't. It wasn't the jewish religion they hated, it was the jewish race. The nazis didn't care what religion someone had- if they were descended from jews, they were a jew, and they had to be exterminated. The nazis believed that their race, that of the nordic aryans, was destined to rule the world and become Friedrich Nietzsche's 'ubermensch'. They also believed that the jews, along with the gypsys, were a parasite race that infected other societies in turn and nourished itself off them, and this was the reason they wanted to exterminate them.

Answer 7

Interesting Question. It depends on your point of view.
The normal approach is that the Nazi`s needed a scapegoat to blame the ills of the world upon.
In Occult circles(excuse the pun) it is a acceptable belief that they persecuted the Jews because they held the inner secrets of the Cabbalah (tree of Life)
Germany was a Christian country which embraced the Paganism of Germanic Myth to give it a sense of worth, this was directly caused by the Versailles treaty which was based purely on revenge and greed, rather than stabilization.

Answer 8

The Nazi's were not athiests. The practiced a from of Gnostic Christian mysticism with elements of Germanic paganism misused and tossed in to generate a sense of nationalism in the people.

As for their hatred of the Jews; it wasn't on religious grounds, but as a matter of ethnicity and race. The idea was that the Jews were descended from some sub-human ancestor and were not truly human. It was a way of diabolizing and dehumanising them in the eyes of the people, making it easier to make them the scapegoat for all of the area's ills.

Answer 9

Nazis were "Christian"

by their hatred of everything and everyone, you can't really consider them Christians.

then there's the whole thing that Hitler tried to mix occult and paganism to form a religion that Nazis were god-men descended from Atlantis.

so Atheists no.


as for their reason, there really is none, just some convoluted attempts at logic.


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Answer 10

Certainly Hitler self-identified as a Catholic but just how much of that was not to anger the very powerful RCC we will never know. Hitler was more a kind of Odinist. He believed firmly in the racial superiority of the Aryan peoples (in his definition, the Nordic folk.)

As for the hating Judaism more than any other religion. I don't actually think it holds water. Hitler put members of the Quakers (Christians), Jehovah's Witnesses (Christian sect) and various protestant churches into the concentration camps as well.

His problem was not with Judaism per se but with the Jews as a people (which inevitably means with their religion) but if I had to, I'd say he would have hated the Jews even in absence of their religion, remember he hunted out Jewish converts to Christianity and their descendants as well, labelling them 'Non-Aryans.'