Hitler and His Reasoning Behind the Holocaust The majority of the world can agree that the Holocaust was a detrimental time in our history in which millions were slaughtered at the whim of one man, Adolf Hitler, who believed that his actions were logical and necessary to fulfill the process of creating a utopian world. A logical solution that was fueled by hate. Now, many may wonder what one race could do that could bring death to over 6 million of them. This hate was brought to Adolf through many causes, causes which caused one horrid effect. Hitler was a strong believer of the common idea of Anti-Semitism, a hatred for the Jewish race and the blaming of them for many misfortunes in the past. This ideal was one head dearly by the Nazi party,
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An example of one of these “hard times” would be the German’s loss of World War I. It is a common claim that the blame for this loss was put directly on the Jews as Hitler argued that the Jewish capitalists “stabbed them in the back” which allowed the opposing forces to pull through to victory (Fleming). Ralf-George Reuth, a well-known German historian and biographer, claims that Hitler was also looking for a group to blame for the economic depression that Germany was suffering from at the time (Adolf). For this, Hitler put the blame on the Jews again except this time his conclusion was quite logical. It makes sense that Hitler would blame the Jews for the economic depression since they were in control of most parts of the economy at the time. They held this control because half of all private banks in Germany were owned by Jewish. Also, the stock exchange in German was completely dominated by Jewish stockbrokers and almost half the nation’s newspaper were run by the Jewish as were 80 percent of the chain stores at the time (Adolf). It is known that the Jewish were very strong capitalists at the time which goes directly against Hitler’s idea of the best economy (Adolf). All of this blame just fueled the fire of hatred within Hitler and his supporters and came to cause an event as horrific as the …show more content…
This event was the Russian revolution, an event in which thousands of Russians turned against and defied their government. Hitler believed that the Jews were the cause of this revolution and wanted them to pay. Reuth says that this was one of the most clear and present causes for Hitler’s hate for Jews at the time as he preferred the old way in which Russia was run and not the way that the revolters were advocating for (Adolf). As justification for this belief, Hitler quoted the Nobel-prize winning author Thomas Mann who also claimed that the Jews were responsible for the Russian Revolution. This tended to be an adequate appeal to an authority to get others to believe such claims. Jewish participation in the Russian revolution can be seen as they played a large role in the founding of the Soviet Republic in Munich which was against everything Hitler stood for as a Nationalist (Adolf). Also, the Jews used their control over the media to promote Communism (Hall). This involvement in the Russian revolution by the Jews came to portray them as standing for something that Hitler did not and, therefore spreading what they stood for. Hitler did not like this as he believed the Jewish did not hold correct ideas and by spreading them, they were just plaguing a world in which he was trying to
An example of one of these “hard times” would be the German’s loss of World War I. It is a common claim that the blame for this loss was put directly on the Jews as Hitler argued that the Jewish capitalists “stabbed them in the back” which allowed the opposing forces to pull through to victory (Fleming). Ralf-George Reuth, a well-known German historian and biographer, claims that Hitler was also looking for a group to blame for the economic depression that Germany was suffering from at the time (Adolf). For this, Hitler put the blame on the Jews again except this time his conclusion was quite logical. It makes sense that Hitler would blame the Jews for the economic depression since they were in control of most parts of the economy at the time. They held this control because half of all private banks in Germany were owned by Jewish. Also, the stock exchange in German was completely dominated by Jewish stockbrokers and almost half the nation’s newspaper were run by the Jewish as were 80 percent of the chain stores at the time (Adolf). It is known that the Jewish were very strong capitalists at the time which goes directly against Hitler’s idea of the best economy (Adolf). All of this blame just fueled the fire of hatred within Hitler and his supporters and came to cause an event as horrific as the …show more content…
This event was the Russian revolution, an event in which thousands of Russians turned against and defied their government. Hitler believed that the Jews were the cause of this revolution and wanted them to pay. Reuth says that this was one of the most clear and present causes for Hitler’s hate for Jews at the time as he preferred the old way in which Russia was run and not the way that the revolters were advocating for (Adolf). As justification for this belief, Hitler quoted the Nobel-prize winning author Thomas Mann who also claimed that the Jews were responsible for the Russian Revolution. This tended to be an adequate appeal to an authority to get others to believe such claims. Jewish participation in the Russian revolution can be seen as they played a large role in the founding of the Soviet Republic in Munich which was against everything Hitler stood for as a Nationalist (Adolf). Also, the Jews used their control over the media to promote Communism (Hall). This involvement in the Russian revolution by the Jews came to portray them as standing for something that Hitler did not and, therefore spreading what they stood for. Hitler did not like this as he believed the Jewish did not hold correct ideas and by spreading them, they were just plaguing a world in which he was trying to