The Jews And The Jewish Population

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.

Consistent with Rossel, Germany has had a past of anti-Semitism, starting in 1542 when the great German Protestant leader Martin Luther wrote a booklet called Against the Jews and Their Lies. Even earlier the Catholic Churches had taught that the Jewish people killed Crist and should therefore be hated (10). Early teachings of anti-Semitism lead to a hating of the Jewish community, but with the German’s calling themselves the “Aryan Race” and the Jewish people calling themselves the “chosen one’s” there was bound to be competition on who was superior.

     Throughout history the Jewish people have been scapegoats; whenever something was not going right they were the ones to blame. From Biblical times through to the Shakespearean Era, all the way to the Middle East Crisis and the creation of Israel, the Jews have been persecuted and blamed for the problems of the world. The most horrifying account of Jewish persecution is the holocaust, which took place in Europe from 1933 to 1945 when Adolf Hitler tried to eliminate all the people that he thought were inferior to the Germans, namely the Jews, because he wanted a pure Aryan State.

In the 1930's the Wall Street crash occurred and the Jews having an image of being well educated and very wealthy and selfish due to all their large important businesses they ran in Germany. Hitler portrayed an image of the Jews to the Germans as though the reason why some Germans are out of jobs is because the Jews have stolen their jobs and are invading Germany being 'parasites' and taking what belongs to 'pure' hardworking German people. Therefore when the economic situation in Germany was very low and the German economy was suffering from the depression, the Jews were blamed for having all the German money and for Germans being very poor and starving during the time of the depression in the 1930's. Despite the fact the Jewish people were not particularly communist at all, due to Hitler being anti- communist, this was another act of using them as scapegoats. Anti - Semitism had been current in Europe for centuries, even since the days of 'Christ'.

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

Jews were discriminated during this time. They were treated unfairly. An example of how they were treated is from the book, “every jew had to wear a yellow star.” ( Wiesel, 11) They wore this because the Nazis wanted to single them out because of who they were. When they were in concentration camps, the prisoners had to shave their head bald and dress in rags. “ He ultimate affront to their identity was replacing of every prisoner’s name with a number.” ( The Guardian) Their own identities were taken away. “Hitler’s racial notions were implemented by measures that increasingly excluded jews from German society.” ( Holocaust Denial) Adolf HItler and the Nazi party were anti-semitic toward jews. That means

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

The German Jews believed that assimilation was the future and only thought it would deepen and get better. Anti-Semitism was on the fringe of society and politics but some Jews remained reluctant to throw themselves into the German culture- they believed the good times would not last. They were not fuelled with this hope of everything being forgotten about Jews being ‘outsiders’ and ‘alien’ and that’s fair enough as some Jews were still until the 1930’s were being treated as

By scapegoating the Jews the Russian Socialists were now distracted by having to deal with a new new enemy. This process could have been made easier to do, since the Jewish intelligentsia believe that the jewish masses were illogical in their interest in wanting to improve the jewish condition and therefore were inferior, and not worth their concern or time. The Russian Intelligentsia may have been influenced by theses opinions, while they were working with the Jewish

First of all, the Nazis used false information about Jewish people and utilized negative Jewish stereotypes to legitimize the horrific acts of violence during the Final Solution. The Nazis were evil towards the Jews. Movies, newspapers, and posters were only some of the ways anti-semitic messages were thrown out into the public. A newspaper called Der Sturmer pumped out stories devoted to showing Germans how dirty Jews were (Marcovitz 15). Things like “Jews are immoral, indecent, dishonest, ugly, fat, not human, cannibalistic”, and “Jews eat their children and drink their blood”, were common headlines (Marcovitz 15). Jews were not humans. They were on the same level as bugs and needed to be exterminated from Germany and all of Eastern Europe. Also, stereotypes from 100’s of years ago were still alive and well. Jews were tax collectors a long time ago, and some people still hated them for it. Some people could not let go of old derogatory lies and the Nazis loved this. Hate towards the Jews was stronger than kindness and the Nazis fed off of this. If people saw the propaganda and the heard old stereotypes, then maybe they would hop on board with the Nazis.

Jewish people have been used as a scapegoat many times in history; the Black Plague, a bad economy, and now for the loss of World War One. Scapegoating is the act of laying blame on others without just cause. After Germany’s surrender in 1918, the League of Nations forced Germany to sign the Treaty of Versailles. This treaty isolated Germany and forced the blame of World War One on them, essentially scapegoating Germany. The German people were not happy with this and put in a weak position, making them easily influenced by

The hatred was centered on the Jews in Germany during the Holocaust. They were always blamed for things before, so Hitler decided it would be easy to point to them again. Hitler used propaganda to persuade the non-Jew public to blame and hate the Jews. They could beat them, they could basically do anything they wanted to them. Of course it got worse with concentration camps and other camps that they put Jews in. Most of them died

One theory is while imprisoned for treason for his role in the Beer Hall Putsch of 1923, Hitler wrote the memoir and propaganda book “Mein Kampf”, meaning “my struggle”, in which he predicted a general European war that would end in “the extermination of the Jewish race in Germany.” While the most commonly conceived concept from given knowledge and statements by the Nazis lead people to believe that the Jews were seen as a lower race by the Nazis and were segregated to prevent the mixture of bad genes into that of their superior race, then killed to prevent this ever happening in the future. But in terms of deeper analysis one could easily consider the possibility of it being a method of gaining power and having no real relationship to the Jewish race except for maybe by personal grudge or random selection. In history it is seen that many leaders gained power or justification by establishing a false religion or explanation that supports their best interests and this is an applicable idea to Nazi Germany, they had established the ability to kill off any citizens they wanted and became a dominant force due to this. This would explain the seemingly unconventional mass murder of the Jews for what seem like ridiculous and unjustified reasons, while still inhumane and cruel, understandable in terms of human

The most widely known aspects of Nazi ideology are their hatred of Jewish people and their tireless efforts to exterminate the entire race during their rule. This distinctly Nazi belief of antisemitism is not one that the Nazis created. It instead had existed for several thousand years throughout Germany and all of Europe. As Stackelberg and Winkle explain, “The origins of the stereotype of Jews as immoral materialists can be traced to the unwillingness of Jews to give up their religion in favor of world-renouncing Christianity” (Stackelberg and Winkle, Anti-Semitism, p. 2). This feeling of hatred towards Jews persisted for centuries, especially in countries that had a majority of Christian citizens. There were a number of people that continually perpetuated these anti-Semitic views with the works that they published and their actions towards Jews. A great