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.

People outside his party he dealt with accordingly. He wasn’t stupid, and knew he couldn’t just go around killing everyone, so I would expect he had less upfront ways, not necessarily any nicer, but different.

Hitler showed clear retaliation against the Jewish people when a Jewish boy shot The Third-Secretary of Germany in Paris. The Nazis had waited for their chance and leapt at this one by destroying synagogues and shops of the Jewish people. Now how many ambassadors were assassinated after that? Hitler was a political genius and this was one of the ways he showed that fact off.

You also have to take this attack on the Jewish people in context. Anti-Semitism was at an extreme high; this act further alienated the Jewish people from the rest of Germany, and when you make one group feel like that the group that isn’t alienated feels like more of the group. Hitler also forced the group closer together; by killing off important people within the party he forced the people under them to turn to him instead.

Through all of these acts Hitler once again demonstrated his political savvy. Even though he was a murderer, racist and cheat, no one can accuse Hitler of being a bad politician. He did almost everything right. He gave the people what they wanted, demanded respect, and was a great public speaker, what else can you ask for?

I can only imagine how the person who shot the ambassador of Germany must have felt. He gave the Nazis a good excuse to lash out at the Jewish people. It goes to show you how any little thing can have a great effect.