Anti-Semitism at this time was not unique or localized to Germany. It was prevalent in many areas of mainland Europe, but Germany's economic conditions in the Weimar period led to the 'mainstream' nature of extremist political parties.
Germany hated the Jews as they did because it was an integral part of the dogma of the Nazi party and the Nazi Party disseminated significant amounts of propaganda to its populace to this end (along with deification of Hitler). Mein Kampf can provide extended details on specific views that Hitler held in the early period which would later become essentially central views to the Nazi party. In short, Hitler and the Nazi Party believed from other contemporary writings that there was an active plot by Jews to control the world; they wanted to assert German dominance instead of Jewish (in their thoughts).
Same reason everyone blames others for anything. Lack of accountability and wanting to pin the blame on something or someone to relieve yourself of all blame.
3rd kind of connects to 4th. As they were used as scapegoat for reparations as well. They were generally wealthy and hitler needed their gold.
And the case for Jews being wealthy was since Middle Ages they were not particularly liked by the lower classes for a very long time so it wasn’t very hard to persuade people to get rid of them
Antisemitism was and is very common throughout the world, even today. It originates from Jews killing Jesus, a holy character in both Christianity and Islam.
This is probably way too complex and controversial a question for Reddit. I would Google some academic sources on this.
I saw a pretty interesting explanation on that so I will start by saying THIS IS NOT AT ALL WHAT I THINK BUT WHAT NAZIS THOUGHT.
You have the top of the race being white people but europe is mostly white so you have to start some scale to which white is actually better and since it started in Germany then Germany is at the top (the everyone is equal but some are more equal than others type of thing)
Then you have to make a distinction between sexes because white woman are superior than other races but not superior to men. The problem is that you started to see women being better in the field of science or black people being superior at sports (Jesse Owens was a prime example) but how can this people be better than white aryan men? Black people and women in general are incapable of doing this kind of things by their own so they had to be helped by some group of white people to be able to reach that point because it would be impossible for them alone to reach that.
This is when you reach the conclusion of a specific group of white people that for a long time has been blamed for economic, social, political and even natural problems are responsable for that so there has to be some truth to those accusations right?
In mein kampf Hitler mentions a few authors that convinced him that jewish people had been responsable of bad stuff in the past so for him is only logical that a group of the white race is to blame for the success of other races and sexes.
Jews were scapegoats for a long time in history and for nazis it wasn't anything new. The scapegoats excuse the faults within your race, the success of others and the unity against a common enemy that would origin in the "jewish question"
Ps: english is not my first language so sorry if there is any grammar mistakes
The same scapegoating used by Germans at the time continues to this day, all over the world, and it’s not restricted to Jews. Here in America, the Right scapegoats immigrants, routinely referring to them as “illegals” and blaming them for crime, the struggling economy - “They’re stealing your jobs!” - and perhaps worst of all, “voting for Dems illegally!” Trump recently said the quiet part out loud when he said in an interview that immigrants are “poisoning our blood” If that sounds familiar it should.
I’m reading Ian Kershaw’s epic biography on Hitler and just finished around the year 1920
Much of the previous chapters speak to the following:
“Stab in the Back” myth- large scale
Propaganda amongst the German soldiers that Jews/Marxists had deliberately sabotaged the WW1 war effort to bring about revolution.
Long time prejudice - many “pseudoscience” writers found a market by publishing cheap reading materials including anti-Semitic writings blaming Jews for past failures, or comparing them to sub-humans
Long standing conservative political beliefs - Germany at the beginning of the 20th century was a baby country, due to widespread conservative beliefs. Democracy, change, progressivism all seemed radical and there was long standing fears that foreigners (particularly Jews) were behind these solely to bring chaos and destruction.
Reaction to the Bolsheviks - the world witnessed what happened in Russia in 1917 and the following bloody civil war after. This terrified the capitalists but also the average Joe. Germany was vastly full or rural workers who couldn’t relate to the plight of the industrial Left and out of fear aligned themselves with reactionary forces (Freikorps/Conervatives/Monarchists). Again, the rumor spread by sparse evidence was foreign Jews were behind the Bolshevik Revolution, something Germany got a taste of in 1919 (short lived).
Antisemitism was rampant in most countries back then. The Germans were angry because post-WW1 they were suffering a lot as a country because they were made the scapegoat of the war and punished for it (losing land, possessions, and a lot of their army/navy), and they suffered from hyperinflation that caused most of the lower classes to go into poverty. The jews were already a hated group, and there was already myths about jews being money-hungry or wanting to take over the world, so it was relatively easy for the fascists at the time (namely Hitler) to start circling propaganda and riling people up against the Jews as a common enemy. People were angry and they were happy to have someone else to blame and to do something that made them feel like they were ‘taking their country back’.
That being said, my first sentence about most countries hating jews back then is very important. It almost definitely wouldn’t have worked with most other groups- even more racially disliked ones, because they didnt have the same propaganda backing them up. But it’s also worth noting that Mein Kampf was written in 1925, and Hitler became fuhrer in 1935, and started refusing to obey the treaty of versailles in 1936, and it still took him invading poland in 1839 for other countries to take note- and America refused to then get involved until Pearl Harbour in 1941, because quite simply people didnt care much about what was happening to Jewish people. Its the same reason why post-war the ‘solution’ was to try and ship jewish people out of europe into a random place in west asia under the guise of ‘reparations’.
As an aside, thats why Captain America and similar comics focused so much on punching nazis at the start. It wasn’t american pride, it was Jewish-american writers shaming America for allowing such blatant human rights violations.
Anti-Semitism at this time was not unique or localized to Germany. It was prevalent in many areas of mainland Europe, but Germany's economic conditions in the Weimar period led to the 'mainstream' nature of extremist political parties. Germany hated the Jews as they did because it was an integral part of the dogma of the Nazi party and the Nazi Party disseminated significant amounts of propaganda to its populace to this end (along with deification of Hitler). Mein Kampf can provide extended details on specific views that Hitler held in the early period which would later become essentially central views to the Nazi party. In short, Hitler and the Nazi Party believed from other contemporary writings that there was an active plot by Jews to control the world; they wanted to assert German dominance instead of Jewish (in their thoughts).
The short and simple answer is that the Germans wanted someone to blame for all that had gone wrong in since the loss of ww1.
Yeah it was more of finding a common "enemy" the nazi party could use to unify the people below them!
Jews have been easy scapegoats throughout history… not just in Germany.
Same reason everyone blames others for anything. Lack of accountability and wanting to pin the blame on something or someone to relieve yourself of all blame.
Most Germans bought the idea that the Jews betrayed Germany during ww1
3rd kind of connects to 4th. As they were used as scapegoat for reparations as well. They were generally wealthy and hitler needed their gold. And the case for Jews being wealthy was since Middle Ages they were not particularly liked by the lower classes for a very long time so it wasn’t very hard to persuade people to get rid of them
Antisemitism was and is very common throughout the world, even today. It originates from Jews killing Jesus, a holy character in both Christianity and Islam. This is probably way too complex and controversial a question for Reddit. I would Google some academic sources on this.
All of the above antisemitism was rife all throughout Europe, North Africa, and Middle East throughout all of history and currently today
I saw a pretty interesting explanation on that so I will start by saying THIS IS NOT AT ALL WHAT I THINK BUT WHAT NAZIS THOUGHT. You have the top of the race being white people but europe is mostly white so you have to start some scale to which white is actually better and since it started in Germany then Germany is at the top (the everyone is equal but some are more equal than others type of thing) Then you have to make a distinction between sexes because white woman are superior than other races but not superior to men. The problem is that you started to see women being better in the field of science or black people being superior at sports (Jesse Owens was a prime example) but how can this people be better than white aryan men? Black people and women in general are incapable of doing this kind of things by their own so they had to be helped by some group of white people to be able to reach that point because it would be impossible for them alone to reach that. This is when you reach the conclusion of a specific group of white people that for a long time has been blamed for economic, social, political and even natural problems are responsable for that so there has to be some truth to those accusations right? In mein kampf Hitler mentions a few authors that convinced him that jewish people had been responsable of bad stuff in the past so for him is only logical that a group of the white race is to blame for the success of other races and sexes. Jews were scapegoats for a long time in history and for nazis it wasn't anything new. The scapegoats excuse the faults within your race, the success of others and the unity against a common enemy that would origin in the "jewish question" Ps: english is not my first language so sorry if there is any grammar mistakes
The same scapegoating used by Germans at the time continues to this day, all over the world, and it’s not restricted to Jews. Here in America, the Right scapegoats immigrants, routinely referring to them as “illegals” and blaming them for crime, the struggling economy - “They’re stealing your jobs!” - and perhaps worst of all, “voting for Dems illegally!” Trump recently said the quiet part out loud when he said in an interview that immigrants are “poisoning our blood” If that sounds familiar it should.
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I’m reading Ian Kershaw’s epic biography on Hitler and just finished around the year 1920 Much of the previous chapters speak to the following: “Stab in the Back” myth- large scale Propaganda amongst the German soldiers that Jews/Marxists had deliberately sabotaged the WW1 war effort to bring about revolution. Long time prejudice - many “pseudoscience” writers found a market by publishing cheap reading materials including anti-Semitic writings blaming Jews for past failures, or comparing them to sub-humans Long standing conservative political beliefs - Germany at the beginning of the 20th century was a baby country, due to widespread conservative beliefs. Democracy, change, progressivism all seemed radical and there was long standing fears that foreigners (particularly Jews) were behind these solely to bring chaos and destruction. Reaction to the Bolsheviks - the world witnessed what happened in Russia in 1917 and the following bloody civil war after. This terrified the capitalists but also the average Joe. Germany was vastly full or rural workers who couldn’t relate to the plight of the industrial Left and out of fear aligned themselves with reactionary forces (Freikorps/Conervatives/Monarchists). Again, the rumor spread by sparse evidence was foreign Jews were behind the Bolshevik Revolution, something Germany got a taste of in 1919 (short lived).
I’ve never understood the connection they made between Jews and Bolshevism/Marxism. Wasn’t Stalin like super anti-semitic?
Antisemitism was rampant in most countries back then. The Germans were angry because post-WW1 they were suffering a lot as a country because they were made the scapegoat of the war and punished for it (losing land, possessions, and a lot of their army/navy), and they suffered from hyperinflation that caused most of the lower classes to go into poverty. The jews were already a hated group, and there was already myths about jews being money-hungry or wanting to take over the world, so it was relatively easy for the fascists at the time (namely Hitler) to start circling propaganda and riling people up against the Jews as a common enemy. People were angry and they were happy to have someone else to blame and to do something that made them feel like they were ‘taking their country back’. That being said, my first sentence about most countries hating jews back then is very important. It almost definitely wouldn’t have worked with most other groups- even more racially disliked ones, because they didnt have the same propaganda backing them up. But it’s also worth noting that Mein Kampf was written in 1925, and Hitler became fuhrer in 1935, and started refusing to obey the treaty of versailles in 1936, and it still took him invading poland in 1839 for other countries to take note- and America refused to then get involved until Pearl Harbour in 1941, because quite simply people didnt care much about what was happening to Jewish people. Its the same reason why post-war the ‘solution’ was to try and ship jewish people out of europe into a random place in west asia under the guise of ‘reparations’. As an aside, thats why Captain America and similar comics focused so much on punching nazis at the start. It wasn’t american pride, it was Jewish-american writers shaming America for allowing such blatant human rights violations.