Kingsborough Community College
Honors Program
Hitler’s Ideology Towards the Jews
From his service in the military to how he took over power in the whole of Germany was a scary sight in the books of history, but was his thrive to reign in power obstructed by the Jews? Did the Jews ever plan to overthrow him? Then why all his retaliation towards people of this religion. What are the specific basis and ideas he had that were accompanied by years and years of bloodsheds and slave labor of millions of Jews in Europe? In this paper, I look at the basis and core of Hitler’s fantasized ideology towards the Jews.
An Honors Contract Project
History 3100
Napoleon to Hitler
Professor Richard Tomback
Spring 2016
Kingsborough Community
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At that time, the mayor of the city was anti-Semitic and ensured that his hatred of Jewish people would be widespread. However, this may not the primary reason behind Hitler’s hatred of the Jews. Many individuals think that this hatred stemmed from a childhood friend that was Jewish. However, it cannot be relegated to a single event in his early life” (“Hitler’s Children”). Hitler was the cruelest man on the Earth, because he took the lives of almost 6 million people just to comfort himself from the pain in the past.
Adolf Hitler was a German leader and his government was Nazism. (Skog 4) Hitler believed that Jews were the enemy, and would beat and kill them in the streets. (4) He was a cruel leader, and killed millions of Jews. (4) Some of the Germans still hated the Jews. (Skog 12) Some Germans felt real sorry about the Jews dying. (12) The camps were for either killing Jews or imprisoning, and then killing them afterward. (4) Jews had to dress up in stripes, and if they didn’t they would be severely punished(12)
Through the course of history, the Jewish people have been mistreated, condemned, robbed, even put to death because of their religion. In the Middle Ages, they were forced to wear symbols on their clothing, identifying them as Jews. The dates 1933 to 1945 marked the period of the deadly Holocaust in which many atrocities were committed against the Jewish people and minority groups not of Aryan descent. Six million innocent Jews were exterminated because of Hitler’s “Final Solution.” This paper will exhibit how Adolf Hitler used the three anti-Jewish policies written in history, conversion, expulsion, and annihilation to his advantage.
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