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Because Hitler had a particular dislike for Jewish people. He applied to an art school and was rejected by the (Jewish) headmaster. It seemed to him that most of the bad instances in his life were caused by Jewish people. He was essentially everything he sought to destroy. He wanted an Aryan race of blonde-haired, blue-eyed people, and he himself had brown hair and brown eyes.
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FranThe explanation of the Nazis' implacable hatred of the Jew rests on their distorted world view which saw history as a racial struggle. They considered the Jews a race whose goal was world domination and who, therefore, were an obstruction to Aryan dominance. They believed that all of history was a fight between races which should culminate in the triumph of the superior Aryan race. Therefore, they considered it their duty to eliminate the Jews, whom they regarded as a threat. Moreover, in their eyes, the Jews' racial origin made them habitual criminals and born subversives who could never be rehabilitated and were, therefore, hopelessly corrupt and inferior.
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The Jews had already been demonized. There is no doubt that other factors contributed toward Nazi hatred of the Jews and their distorted image of the Jewish people. These included the centuries-old tradition of Christian antisemitism which propagated a negative stereotype of the Jew as a Christ-killer, agent of the devil, and practitioner of witchcraft. Also significant was the political antisemitism of the latter half of the nineteenth and early part of the twentieth centuries, which singled out the Jews as a threat to the established order of society. These combined to point to the Jews as a target for persecution and ultimate destruction by the Nazis.
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These stereotypes were prevalent in many countries, so it is necessary to explain why they became potent and more intense in Germany in a way that was not the case elsewhere.
For this one must turn to the 'stab-in-the-back legend', which claimed that Germany had not been militarily defeated in World War 1 but brought down by (mainly Jewish) subversives on the home front. This went hand in hand with the belief the the Jews were Communists (and that Communism was somehow a specifically Jewish ideology).
The original plan was to expel the Jews from Germany. One needs to bear in mind that the decision to exterminate the Jews dates from 1941, and was probably triggered by the fact that the Nazis had made their self-inflicted 'Jewish problem' more difficult by invading Poland (which had a large Jewish population) and by then isolating them in such a way that most of them became of only marginal economic usefulness to the Nazi conquerors.
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There was a million things said by Hitler of why the Jews were going to be targeted for extermination, but the you should know that he was a anti-semite. That means to hate or discriminate against Jews and that's what Hitler did. There was two main reasons Hitler targeted the Jews and it was:
#1. Economic Depression
#2. Loss of World War 1
Hitler began taking his hatred farther than anyone in history has.
Germany was already an anti-semetic country. After the treaty of Versailles, Germany was left with nothing. Hitler reached a hand to Germany and told them he would help them rise up as a country. Hitler quickly scapegoated the Jews for all of Germany's problems because they were an easy target, and at that point, people were willing to believe anything.
Jews were singled out of the elimination of Jews during the Holocaust because the SS and authorities had weapons and they rounded up Jews in a large number of SS Officers, so if Jew(s) fight back they could shoot them dead as they stood. At the camps, they were trapped by by the SS because their armed and their was electric fenced with a range of 600-2500 volts on electric fences. Also the SS and authorities were strong and trained to kill whiles Jews tried to live as normal people.
So Jews were out numbered and out armed
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Jews were singled out because they had no way of fighting back. They had no country or state that would fight for them, they were not represented at the league of nations, not Britain, nor America, nor the Soviet Union complained at any point at the anit-Jewish measures enacted during the previous eight years, so Hitler knew that he could do what he wanted to the Jews and no one would stop him.
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Another reason is that history always has the Jewish people being singled out. The reason is that before Hitler rose to power Germany's economy was rather weak and many Germans were out of money. However, the Jewish people did. So, Hitler used the people's jealousy against the Jews to allow Hitler to do what he did.
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The plan to exterminate all Jewish people was created where?
It is easy to pretend that the plan was to exterminate all Jewish people, it make the plan seem meglomanical and outrageously unattainable. But the fact was that the plan was only to eliminate the Jews from German provinces, which almost succeeded, this was the Holocaust, Six million Jews died in this, to pretend that it was part of an impossible attempt to somehow exterminate all Jewish people world wide is an insult to these people. As to where it was created, it was not a single plan. It arose from a few different needs and different actions, there was one ideology behind it and all of the various facets were overseen by the same person (Himmler), but it was not part of a single plan.
What is the difference between rulers in a democracy and rulers in a totalitarian state?
In a democratic government, citizens have a say when it comes to how the country is run. In a totalitarian regime, the country is ruled by a very tiny group of elite citizens (usually military generals and industrialists). In a democratic regime, people have more control over their lives. However, in a totalitarian regime, the government will try to control the lives of its citizens as much as possible.
The single most important event in Jewish history is their exodus from .?
From a historical perspective, the single most important event in Jewish history was the Babylonian Exile, but this, and the return from Exile, are not really an 'Exodus'.The story of the Exodus from Egypt was important in Jewish biblical tradition, but not in history. Nearly all scholars say there was no Exodus from Egypt as described in The Bible, so the Exodus could not be important in a normal historical sense.
Who was the leader of the Jewish resistance in the Holocaust?
Communications were so hard between different groups that a single 'resistance' was not possible. Probably the most famous of the numerous Jewish resistance leaders was Mordecai Anielewicz in the Warsaw Ghetto.
Why did Hitler put stars on Jews?
Hitler he saw it as a symbol of Judaism and the Jewish People. As a result, since he reviled the Jews, he reviled the star.
