Hitler’s Relationship With the Jews

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“For the Jew was still characterized for me by nothing but his religion, and therefore, on grounds of human tolerance, I maintained my rejection of religious attacks in this case as in others. Consequently, the tone, particularly that of the Viennese anti-Semitic press, seemed to me unworthy of the cultural tradition of a great nation”

-Adolf Hitler

Nazi Immigration Laws

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“Only those who are our fellow countrymen can become citizens, only those who have German blood regardless of creed can be out countrymen, hence no Jew can be our countrymen”

Aryanism

A race that Hitler considered superior to all, they were easily identifiable as those with ‘Blue eyes, Blonde hair’

Why Did Hitler Hate the Jews?

Religious Reasons

"Hence today I believe that I am acting in accordance with the will of the Almighty Creator: by defending myself against the Jew, I am fighting for

the work of the Lord.”

-Adolf Hitler

“...the personification of the devil as the symbol of all evil assumes the living shape of the Jew.”

-Adolf Hitler

“The Ten Commandments have lost their validity.  Conscience is a Jewish invention, it is

a blemish like circumcision.”

- Adolf Hitler

Social Darwinism

Social Darwinism is an ideology of society that seeks to apply biological concepts of Darwinism or of evolutionary theory to sociology and politics, often with the assumption that conflict between groups in society leads to social progress as superior groups outcompete inferior ones.

Early Influences in his Life

The Writers: Nietzsche, Hegel, Fichte, Treitschke and the Englishman, Houston Stewart Chamberlain

The mayor, Karl Leuger

People around him

"Once, as I was strolling through the inner city, I suddenly encountered an apparition in a black caftan and black hair locks. Is this a Jew? was my first thought."

"For, to be sure, they had not looked like that in Linz. I observed the man furtively and cautiously, but the longer I stared at this foreign face, scrutinizing feature for feature, the more my first question assumed a new form: is this a German?”

"...the more I saw, the more sharply they became distinguished in my eyes from the rest of humanity..."

Jews, an Enemy of the State

Some Germans believed that "Jewish bankers" were responsible for the Treaty of Versailles

'stab-in-the-back’ theory

Hitler thought Jews were communists, and many of them as Communist Spies

Jealousy

Jews were successful and weren’t heavily impacted by the economic depression

However, the Jews also became a scapegoat for Germany's economic problems

Rich, but Thieves?

"His is no master people; he is an exploiter: the Jews are a people of robbers. He has never founded any civilization, though he has destroyed civilizations by the hundred...everything he has stolen. Foreign people, foreign workmen build him his temples, it is foreigners who create and work for him, it is foreigners who shed their blood for him.”

- Adolf Hitler

Unifying Germany

Nothing unites people more than when they believe they are constantly under attack and fighting a common enemy

The Jews were the most convenient enemies…

“If we didn't’t already have an enemy, we would invent one”

- Adolf Hitler

Exceptions

Hitler’s first love was a Jewish girl named Stefanie

Jewish prostitution

Josef Neusmann

Ernst, his Jewish Commander

His mother’s Jewish doctor

He sold his paintings to Jewish shops

Mischlinge’s in the army

Speeches

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_0V_xf3OQgM&feature=related

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fKMVt7K4gPY&feature=endscreen&NR=1&bpctr=1347497898

http://www.historylearningsite.co.uk/hitler_jews.htm

In Todays World…“it might be noted that much of Hitler’s rhetoric about the Jews was

based on exactly the same assumption that Leftists to this day use in talking about racial matters. They constantly claim that the proportion

of (say) blacks in the general population should be reflected everywhere—in every occupation and in every institution.  If there is a smaller proportion of (say) blacks in banking than there is in the general

population, this is taken as proof that there is discrimination against blacks in banking.  Hitler used exactly the same argument about Jews. As they are in America today, Jews in prewar Germany were very much

overrepresented in the top echelons of German society.  So, in good Leftist fashion, Hitler took that as proof that good, ordinary Germans were being systematically excluded from such positions in society by malign Jewish machinations.  If Hitler was illogical in such thinking, so

are most Leftists today.  And in fact complaints about Jewish over-representation in (say) top U.S. universities do rumble on at a low level

among Leftists today.” 

- arnoldhateshiscountry45

And thus comes the fact there lives amongst us a non-German, alien race…

-Adolf Hitler

Bibliography

http://www.historyinanhour.com/2011/02/18/hitlers-women/

http://wiki.answers.com/Q/How_did_Hitler's_relationship_with_the_Jewish_people_change

http://www.historyplace.com/worldwar2/riseofhitler/homeless.htm

http://majorityrights.com/weblog/comments//why_hitler_hated_jews