Why did the Nazis murder poles?

Answer 1

Hitler hated the Polish because they were a very strong resistance to him and his Master Plan. The Polish are known for their courage and strong patriotism, something that Hitler viewed as a big obstacle to his plan of creating a Germanized world (and thus erasing Polish culture and tradition). Even before invading Poland, Hitler knew this, and had a special plan made to "deal" with the "Polish problem"- this included killing as many resistance members as possible, especially Polish intellectuals, as they were the first people most likely to form a resistance.

Despite being Slavs, and therefore considered by the Nazis as "sub-human", many poles have the desirable racial characteristics Hitler so valued, (Aryan and Nordic features), and are thus became an important "racial value" to Hitlers Master Plan. Hitler knew that creating the Master race was not only a question of killing off other races, but of propagating the Aryan race. He knew that even if everyone in Germany started reproducing like mad, this would never be enough to cover and to "Gernamize" the occupied territories. Therefore, any Nordic blood that was found on the occupied territories was of great value to Hitler - as he believed that the German Aryan peoples had become strewn across Europe and that this "valuable blood" had to be taken advantage of.

Himmler and Hitler didnt kill all Poles immediately: they would be categorized into several groups: the first were the Polish Jews and Poles with Jewish blood, which were immediately exterminated. Next were the intellectuals, dangerous because of their leadership characteristics, also to be exterminated immediately. The rest of the population were divided into Nordic-looking people and non-Nordic looking people. The latter was sent to forced labor and concentration camps. The Nordic looking Polish people were further divided into categories: those who resisted the Germanization (these were exterminated), and those that wanted to be a part of it. However, most Polish adults (over age of 18) were strongly against Hitler, and this is why Hitler exterminated them, despite their Aryan genetic values. Had the Poles allowed it, Himmler would have set up "Lebensborn" (meaning "Fountain of Life") centers in and around Poland, to serve as mating factories for Aryans. Such Lebensborn centers existed in Norway, as the Norwegians were less resistent to Hitler than the Poles. With the Polish resistance, however, the creation of such centers was not possible. The only solution to get the most out of this "valuable genetic blood" was to steal Aryan looking Polish babies, and to germanize them. Hitler believed that in taking these infants from their mothers, he was fulfilling the Aryan duty to "recuperate our own blood strewn across eastern europe and bring it back to the homeland - if they will not give it to us, we will steal it". Special Nazi units were trained to recognize Aryan Polish children (blond hair, light eyes, etc) and snatch them during the night or whenever. Some babies were even snatched from their mother's arms. As one Nazi officer put it: "When we see a Polish girl with blond hair and blue eyes, we cannot believe she is not speaking German. If she lived in Germany, she would be a beautiful German girl." It is reported that over 200,000 Polish children live in Germany today but are actually kidnapped children from Poland as babies during the war, and they don't even know it!

So Hitler hated Poles for their resistance, their Jewish population, their culture, and mostly because the Polish Aryans refused to become German.

Answer 2

It's not so much that the Nazi's hated the Polish people as they were making land grabs for areas of Germany that were separated from their home territories by Polish territory (these German territories and cities also had naval facilities which the Germans needed for their future war aims)

Additionally much of Poland was inhabited by Jewish people who the Nazis blamed for their economic problems following the end of World War I. It was shown also that the Germans at the time were more interested in grabbing land and taking their hatred out on the Jews than any other reasons for going to war. It just happened to be that Poland was weak and surrounded which is why they fell so fast and it was a good gauge of Britain and Frances reactions after Hitler invaded Poland.

The seemingly "hatred" is confused with "despite", because of the general abilities and achievements of Poland. It is basically agricultural based and Germany was more industrial based - prior to WW1. When the country was invaded in WW2, Hitler was one of the first to see the advantage of tanks and used them against a "horse Calvary" charge (as used successfully in previous wars). They lost quickly (and so did many other countries).

They "hate" the Polish because the Polish seemed to be "backward" farmer types. Also their language is closer to Russian than German.

Hitler valued achievements and discoveries. Many were made in Germany so Hitler saw those people as hardworking and intelligent. He did not look into his birth country "Austria" for that. He saw nothing achieved in Poland so they "just existed".

Answer 3

Hitler had a very strict idea of good people, they had to be blonde and follow the same religion as himself. Hitler didn't dislike all Polish, only the Jews, that happened to make up most of the country.

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90% of the population of Poland was non-Jewish ... and religion had nothing to do with the matter, either. The point was that Germany wanted to expand eastwards.

Answer 4

They thought of polish people as üntermenschen : people who do not deserve to live. They were disgusted by slavic people and so they exterminated them so that the white aryan race can surive

Answer 5

The Nazis were above all a hate-party and had all the usual extreme right-wing prejudices.

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The Nazis were keen on traditional (modern European) military virtues ...

Answer 6

because they were part of a lower race (Slavs).

Answer 7

the polish people were hate because of their religion and beliefs.

Answer 8

There Jewish, half the populace.