Hitler’s “Reasoning” for the Holocaust
Posted on January 10, 2008
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Realistically Hitler had no reason for killing the Jewish people other than he didn’t like them, but he himself was fully convinced of the validity of his reasoning. He had four main reasons that would be logical were they true.
Hitler an the Nazis believed that the Jewish people were a weaker race then the Arians, and that they were holding Germany back from achieving its full potential. He said that they were parasites preying on the good will of the Germans, and that the Germans actually had to stand up to them.
Hitler also said that the Jewish people were a plague. Fearing this plague required extermination for the survival of their families. If a group of people were endangering the life of my family I think I would respond the same way as the everyday German people.
“The Jewish people are plotting behind our backs” was another excuse why the elimination of the Jewish people was necessary. “They are out to ruin us.” The Germans actually thought that the Jewish people were out to get them for no reason.
The final reason Hitler gave for the extermination of the Jewish people was that they forced Germany to go to war. No one really wanted to go to war and if your husbands, brothers, sons and friends were being killed because of something someone else did I would too be enraged.
All of the reasons come down to one; the Germans were scared of the Jewish people. That’s how all racism starts, it is with fear. Fear of being different. Fear of being an outcast. Fear of losing everything. When people get theses fears they have a need and a tendency to pass that blame on to someone weaker then themselves and try to justify it. holocaust timeline
When it all comes down to it the Jewish people did nothing wrong than be different and follow their beliefs, but Hitler and the Nazis used propaganda to its full capability and made it seem like the Jewish people had wronged the Germans.
People are all different. It’s the common bonds that we have that make us truly unique though. A smart white male, is completely different that a smart black male. They are so different yet so the same.
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By N2H
This acrticle isn’t so much inacurate, but it oversimplifies Hitler’s reasoning as expressed even in the first chapter of Mein Kamf. Hitler states that he originally wasn’t an anti-semite, but that certain “observations” led him to that conclusion…not that he had any statistical evidence on the matter to prove it by the way.
His rational began for him in school, where he was taught that every nation or peaople has a set of characteristics that make it unique. The rational then is that any group who’s philosopies and temperments not only are different, but are in opposition to the cultural norm will serve to drag the country down or create cultural pollution and chaos.
Hitler would, for example, read news articles that expressed views he felt went directly against the criteria representing the ideal German in all his glory. He also “observed” that invariably that authors of such “delinquent” articles were Jewish. The same held for movies that he found to be offensive and pornographic (though I’m sure they had nothing on Ron Jeremy and Al Goldstein). Finally there were certain high profile bankers and stock manipulators that were targeted (or stood out) because they were Jewish.
It is an understatement to say that Hitler didn’t like Jews. He really felt that in terms of the views they expressed and the very methods he observed Jews using, that indeed Jews were the very devils themselves. Hitler even went as far as crediting Jews for his own style of persuasion and discourse.