Anti Semitism And The Nazi Party

The motive of this investigation is to analyze the extent of which the Volksgemeinschaft policy affected the rising of German anti-Semitism. The policy arose from the yearning of a society in which there would be less to no differences in class and more unification within the people. The Volkgemeinschaft itself can be defined as a “people’s community.” One of the aspects to consider when analyzing the importance of the Volksgemeinschaft is the terrific and grand impact it had on millions of people. Many people in recent years, as well as in previous years have had numerous unanswered questions about this policy, and this researcher intends to answer a major and essential question; the effect of the policy on German anti-Semitism. Some of the ways in which this investigator plans to analyze and answer this inquiry include collecting information from various reputable internet sites, as well as books such as Michael Wildt’s “Hitler 's Volksgemeinschaft and the Dynamics of Racial Exclusion,” and newspaper articles regarding the policy. The parameter to this investigation will be within the time frame of 1919 and 1939 during which we can see the various changes in German society taking place.

Finally, many purely hated Jews because they were not Aryan. Germany was one of these countries. Hitler, the leader of Germany, has carried hate for the Jews since early childhood. Primarily, he blamed them for his mother’s death along with him not getting into his dream school, Vienna Art College. Also, they were blamed by Germany for defeat in WWI and as the cause for unemployment. However, mainly Jews were persecuted because of the way they looked. At the time, Hitler wanted a racially pure Germany. He believed that by adapting the Darwin theory of survival of the fittest, he would be able to create a stronger generation and kill those that are impure or disabled.

Hitler’s hatred of the Jewish race stems from the German defeat in the first World War. He blames them for a “stab in the back” even though 100,000 Jews had served from Germany and Austria and 12,000 were killed. Right after he and his family moved to the city of Czestochowa, the German military came in and put placards up that ordered all Jewish males between the ages of 15 to 80 to report

At the end of WWI in 1918, Germany’s economy was in ruins. There were very few jobs, and bitterness began to take over the country. According to the text, “Hitler, a rising politician, offered Germany a scapegoat: Jewish people. Hitler said that Jewish people were to blame for Germany’s problems. He believed that Jews did not deserve to live.” (7) This was the birth of Antisemitism--prejudice against Jewish people. Europe’s Jewish people have always been persecuted due to their “different customs and beliefs that many viewed with suspicion.”(7) Hitler simply reignited the flames, and a violent hatred was born.

The view Adolf Hitler had on the Jewish peoples was that everything was their faults and he hated them. Before Hitler became a Dictator he was a soldier just like everyone else in World War 1 and when the German Empire lost he was in disbelief and just couldn’t believe it. Many nationalist and conservatives believed that Germany had not lost the war on the battlefield but due to betrayal from within, by a ‘stab in the back’. Socialists, communists and particularly Jews were blamed, even though more than 100,000 German and Austrian Jews had served in the war and 12,000 had been killed.

Hitler hatred towards the Jews truly began when he came to Vienna. While in Vienna, Hitler read various publications that molded his ideals in regards to the Jews and later policy making when he becomes chancellor. I would like to point out that the author should of took the time to include specific examples of the materials that Hitler read; although, it is fine since we discuss and learned about it in class. Hitler’s first recorded comment against the Jews occurred while in the military. A soldier asked why did Germany lose the war and a commander requested Hitler to reply to the question (Hilberg 5). Hitler blamed the Jews for Germany’s defeat .

German anti-Semitism played the main role in Holocaust and extermination of Jewish population in Europe during World War 2. There are different views on this subject among historians. Some support the fact that German society was anti-Semitic and ordinary

     Politicians even began using the idea of racial superiority in their campaigns to get votes. Such politicians would blame Jews for bad economic times. One of the politicians was Karl Lueger (1844-1910). He became Mayor of Vienna, Austria at the end of the century through the use of antisemitism. Lueger was viewed as a hero to a young man named Adolf Hitler, who was born in Austria in 1889. Hitler's ideas, including his views of Jews, were shaped during the years he lived in Vienna, where he studied Lueger's tactics and the antisemitic newspapers and pamphlets that became readily available during Lueger's long rule. 3

Hitler grew up in a very anti-Semitic belief system. Anti-Semitism is the term used when people are prejudiced against Jews simply for being Jewish. Prejudice means that someone pre-judges or makes up their mind about someone or something before even meeting them. He was told stories of the evil that these people had done, he pondered on this fact, and then he acted on the feelings that he had developed through his youth.

Hitler believed Germans were racially superior and deemed Jews and other ‘undesirables’ a threat and ‘impurity’ to the community. In 1933, before Nazi Germany came into

Prejudice has been a constant scourge on human history with anti-Semitism at the forefront of this insidious social condition. The rise of Nazism was a frightening phenomenon for the peoples of medieval Europe and in its desperation it inspired an opportunity for some to practice a latent prejudice over the Jews. The persecution of Jews during the rise of Nazism was inspired by a government who identified an advantage to further its own political agenda. This is evident through a discussion of the history of anti-Semitism, how anti-Semitism rise and how the Nazis used anti-Semitism to their advantage.

The dominant political figure of German history in the twentieth century, Adolf Hitler, was born in a lower middle class family in the provincial Austrian town of Braunau am Inn on 20 April 1889. In 1907 Hitler applied to enter the Vienna Academy of Art but his application was rejected. After the death of his mother Klara, Hitler decided to move to Vienna. He drifted from job to job, often selling sketches or painting scenes of Old Vienna and it was a period that he himself later called the most miserable period of his life. Many of Hitler’s views of the world were shaped by his experiences on the streets of Vienna and it is probable that his violent anti-Semitism dates from this time.

In the article “Victims of the Nazi Era…” (n.d.), it states that Hitler and the Nazis thought that the Jews were a priority enemy in and out of the country. Their goal was to make the Aryan superior above all else and tried to eliminate the other races. The article describes how the Aryan race was being threatened by marrying and populating with other races. It also claims that Jews were manipulated people through media and parliamentary democracy to advance in the world. Hitler thought they needed to act quickly before the Aryan race was going to be taken over the Jews, Slavs, and Africans “Victims of the Nazi Era…”

Adolf Hitler was born April 20,1889 in the upper Austrian border town Braunau am Inn located 65 miles east of Munich and 30 miles north of Salzburg.Adolf Hitler was a catholic his father Alois Hitler who married Maria Anna Schicklgruber Hitler's grandpa was a jewish person.What made Hitler so certain that jewish people were causing problems with the money in Germany?Why did he do this?Hitler experienced true poverty when his parents past away because he refused to go with any family members.The first thing that influenced Hitler to be like this was the German racist nationalism by the Upper Austrian Pan-German politician Georg Von Schonerer.The second factor that influenced Hitler was the influence of Karl Lueger,Mayor of Karl Lueger,Mayor

Still in power when Hitler arrived in Vienna, Lueger promoted an antisemitism that was more practical and organizational than ideological. Nevertheless, it reinforced anti-Jewish stereotypes and cast Jews as enemies of the German middle and lower classes. Finally, unlike Schönerer, who was always more comfortable with the elitist nationalism of the student fraternities, Lueger was comfortable with big city crowds and knew how to channel their protest into political gain. Hitler drew his ideology in large part from Schönerer, but his strategy and tactics from Lueger.