Hitler Antisemite Analysis

Those who are interested in history, and especially those who study it closely, find themselves familiar with a number of historical “villains”; these villains have left their mark on the world and ruefully earned a place in history as such. Among these many figures, few are mentioned with antisemitism being their ultimate malevolency. Even fewer are endurably mentioned when just “evil” is mentioned, or even “antisemitism”. I would argue that perhaps only one figure holds the title of being the penultimate historical villain and antisemite: Adolf Hitler. Although this is certainly true, I would like to offer a critique of the “authenticity” of Hitler’s particular antisemitic perspective. To argue that Hitler was not a “true” antisemite, if …show more content…
Obviously significant, this presents a new issue for Hitler. Hitler saw any form of political government that would not agree with his idea of a totalitarian dictatorial racial state as a potential issue. This is where I will discuss the ideas of Marxism and political democracy. These forms of government, given that they both attempt to give authority to the citizens of a state, do not agree with Hitler’s worldview. Thusly, they must, in his view, be discredited in some way. For Hitler, discrediting ideas that are quite popular at the time, especially given the disaster of the First World War and the relating political systems involved, would prove, in my view, to be difficult without aligning his ideas with an already present bias. An example lies in the correlation between Jews, social democracy and Marxism. For instance, in an integral passage Hitler …show more content…
I suggested that Hitler was not a born antisemite, and that his views blossomed in Vienna, through the very present antisemitic atmosphere in the city. I offered the idea that Hitler borrowed several of his antisemitic opinions expressed in Mein Kampf from various other prominent antisemitic publications of the day. Using the idea of Marxism as a Jewish ploy, I revealed the borrowed nature of Hitler’s opinion of the topic as a way to undermine political systems of the left, which would indeed oppose the nature of his political ideals. Hitler, in employing the Jewish people as his target, was not merely using them as a scapegoat as one may think, Hitler was calculated in this, as the Jewish people were on the forefront of the European mind, especially in a time in history when the idea of nationalism and national pride were prominent. The Jews were to be a “stepping stone for Hitler”, one that he considered to be the logical first step in his crusade to create a racial state for the Aryan peoples, and for them