Anti-Semitism: The Horrors Of The Holocaust

Hitler and the Holocaust is a very informational novel written by Robert S. Wistrich that not only explains this horrible time in history, but also gives us a look into the mind of Hitler and Nazi ideology. This book is not just centered on Hitler and Germany as it my sound, antisemitism spread like a plague all across Europe even before the Holocaust took place. In this work, Wistrich is not making an argument, but is trying to find an explanation on why so many inhumane actions were allowed.

Hitler had shown unwillingness to tolerate the Jews and once he was appointed Chancellor, he started to take elimination measures like deportation, forced emigration, and isolation to enforce his belief. He took advantage of Germany’s weakness in World War One, then used it as an opportunity to blame the Jews for Germany’s defeat. Hitler’s political party was the largest political party in Germany thus allowing them to draw very large crowds to gatherings. He had very good oratory speeches with hand gestures that easily manipulated people to adhere to his views. Hitler constantly targeted the Jews because he knew people believed in these speeches. People in Germany were already anti-semitic but Hitler made it worse by constantly consuming them in his speeches. From the way he spoke about the Jews, we could clearly see the possibility of genocide. Hitler wanted Germany to be free of any humans that anyone other than his ideal master race so he personally selected bodyguards to be part of a group called the SS. Hitler was responsible for ordering the SS to carry out the extermination of anyone who did not fit this ideal. The SS handled oppositions using force and as a result of which people were forced to give into the idea of violence. Sometimes people purposely went along with this Holocaust ideal due to the fear of getting killed. These terrors allowed the holocaust occur

If one hates someone or something that means they have an intense dislike towards them. Sometimes this hate can be so large it can be an influence for mass destruction. We have learned, or even have seen examples of hate turning into something bigger throughout our history. These examples include the multiple wars, terrorist’s attacks, and genocides. Many of these incidents were drove by hate, and did not end well. What drives this hate? How can people turn on one another with just feeling hate towards them? The Holocaust being one of the many genocides in our history was indeed influenced by an intense dislike. That intense dislike was towards certain types of people it ended up taking multiple lives.

Well first off, Hitler and the Nazis weren’t the first people to treat the Jews poorly; they were just the ones to treat them the worst and the most recent. But up until recent time the Jewish people have always been treated poorly throughout the history of their religion. The Jews have always been like the little guy in school that always gets beat up on. According to the website Why Did Hitler Hate The Jews? Hitler just built upon and used anti-Semitic ideas that already existed from past cultures and societies. The Nazis hatred of the Jews was so different in that they believed that the Jews were biologically and racially distinct, that there was a kind of biological struggle for dominance over the entire human race between the Jews and everybody else (The Nazi Hatred of the Jews). The Nazis singled them out because they thought the Jewish people were pests, the Nazis didn’t even consider them humans, and needed to be eradicated to make the world

political force, yet that they were really organically and racially unmistakable and thusly should have been be annihilated. Albeit present day Anti-Semitism isn't as open out in the open, numerous still accept the generalizations and states of mind toward Judaism and Jews are regularly still negative and bigot. A percentage of the significant present day Jewish generalizations that are depicted in the media are:

By blaming the Jews for the economic crisis that Germany was suffering through as well as their defeat in WW1, Hitler targeted the Jews as the country’s main enemy. According to him, the Jewish were directly responsible for Germany’s problems. Hitler hated the Jews leading up to the Holocaust because he believed that the Jewish financiers were responsible for sending the world into its first World War, causing the deaths over 100,000 Germans. According to the Nazis the “Aryan race” was the best and strongest race. Jews were of another inferior race. In fact so inferior that they were not considered to be “people” by the

Horror struck on January 30, 1933, when Germany assigned Adolf Hitler as their chancellor. Once Hitler had finally reached power he set out to complete one goal, create a Greater Germany free from the Jews (“The reasons for the Holocaust,” 2009). This tragedy is known today as, “The Holocaust,” that explains the terrors of our histories past. The face of the Holocaust, master of death, and leader of Germany; Adolf Hitler the most deceitful, powerful, well spoken, and intelligent person that acted as the key to this mass murder. According to a research study at the University of South Florida, nearly eleven million people were targeted and killed. This disaster is a genocide that was meant to ethnically cleanse Germany of the Jews. Although Jewish people were the main target they were not the only ones targeted; gypsies, African Americans, homosexuals, socialists, political enemies, communists, and the mentally disabled were killed (Simpson, 2012, p. 113). The word to describe this hatred for Jewish people is known as antisemitism. It was brought about when German philosophers denounced that “Jewish spirit is alien to Germandom” (“Antisemitism”) which states that a Jew is non-German. Many people notice the horrible things the Germans did, but most don’t truly understand why the Holocaust occurred. To truly understand the Holocaust, you must first know the Nazis motivations. Their motivations fell into two categories including cultural explanations that focused on ideology and

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.

Rumors about jews were spread to the German people which led to extreme racism and hate towards the jewish race in germany. Many germans had grown up around jewish families and still believed the horrible things they were being told. Seeing that people hated people they’d grown up around because of things they were being told by their government about those people is sickening for most. Similar to jewish people, the japanese people in america were hated by fellow countrymen because of rumors after being attacked by japan during pearl harbor,hate for japanese skyrocketed. People thought all Japanese Americans were spies for the Japanese government. Lik elie, being hated by fellow countrymen because of rumors and racism can greatly affect your faith in humanity. Like your fellow countrymen, you'd expect people around the world to step in and stop these social injustices against other people around the

Adolf Hitler shared the same hatred towards the Jewish race as many Germans, he believed that they were the reason to Germany’s defeat in the First World War; there was nothing unique about his hatred, but the way he conveyed his message was extremely unique.

- One of the ways anti-Semitism was promoted was through Henry Ford, since Ford was a publisher he was able to print a document stating Jewish conspiracies plotting to destroy Christian civilization and create Jewish sovereignty. Ford had such a popular audience that many believed what he had wrote. Even after he retracted his document due to forgery he continued to

Dating back to oldest of human history there was always a hatred for the Jews by others, this hate that was passed down from generation to generation that built up slowly til someone took it too far; Anti-Semitism is what it is now known as, resentment to the Jews that started from lies and passed on through rumours. Adolf Hitler was a man of resentment, he was leader of the Nazi’s; a German extreme political party who held a strong hatred for the Jewish race. Hitler had loathed the Jews all his life and when it came to the great depression where everyone was so very upset he used this as an opportunity to throw shade on the Jews and blame them for all their wrongs of their lives and people were desperate enough to accept this reasoning in hope for a better life. Hitler gained massive acceptance with the nation and his political party grew threw the course of two years and by 1933 the Nazi’s had taken over without even having won an election all thanks to Hitler’s persuasiveness that granted him the chance of becoming Chancellor. Hitler used all of his power to

One of the reasons anti-semitism will never be eradicated is racist people that love to spread rumors about Jews, such as Adolf Hitler. One of the rumors that was spread about Jews by Adolf Hitler and the Nazis is that Jews are responsible for their loss in WWI. They also blamed the Jews for their economic crisis. The Jews were also thought of as a lower race, and according to the Nazis, were so inferior that they shouldn’t be considered people. Another rumor spread about Jews by Adolf Hitler was that they were homosexual. These rumors made many people hateful of the Jewish race.

To start with, Hitler’s long-established plan of genocide proved his intention was vital to the emergence of the Holocaust. Hitler had a clear plan about the “Jewish Question”. In 1919, Hitler wrote a letter to Gemlich, a German soldier working for Reichswehr, in which he wrote a response of the “Jewish Question”. “Rational anti-Semitism”, Hitler expressed, “must lead to a systematic legal opposition and elimination of the special privilege that Jews hold, in contrast to the other aliens living among us (aliens’ legislation). It’s final objective must unswervingly be the removal of the Jews altogether”. Hitler stated clearly that the systematic anti-Semitism program involved two stages, and Nazis’ anti-Jewish acts in the next three decades proved they were following this systematic approach of Hitler. After gaining dictatorial powers from the Enabling Act passed in March 24, 1933,

Historically, people have apparently really disliked Judaism, from their oppression(and various counts of genocide and mass murder over several hundred years) at the hands of the Romans and later the Byzantines, oppression at the hands of Muslims, the Crusades, the Spanish Inquisition, the hundreds of blood libels incited by Christians from 700 CE to 1950 CE, their persecution, and murder, at the hands of Russian in in the early 1900s(and earlier), and of course, the Holocaust, they hold a long, and saddening history of oppression. We are however just focusing on only one of these, the Holocaust, and how Hitler originally wanted to solve his ‘Jewish problem’ and how it eventually escalated to his ‘Final Solution’.