Why and why did Hitler exterminate the Jews?

Anti-Semitism is a shameful phenomenon. Actually, any harassment and, even more so, physical destruction of people on a national basis is criminal, especially if it is initiated by the government and conducted on a national scale. History knows cases of mass genocide against representatives of different nations. Hundreds of thousands of Armenians destroyed the Turks at the turn of the 19th and 20th centuries. It is not known to all that the Japanese soldiers cruelly dealt with the Chinese during the occupation of Nanking and Singapore in the late 1930s. The mass executions of the Serbian population were conducted in the war by the allies of Nazi Germany, the Croatian Ustashi. Historically, recently, in 1994, terrible national cleansing (Hutu killed Tutsis) shocked Rwanda.

But there are people who were subjected in the twentieth century to the most violent ethnic persecution, called the Holocaust. Modern Germans can not unequivocally explain why the Jews of their grandfathers, who grew up under the influence of Goebbels propaganda, exterminated the Jews. It is possible that the ancestors themselves would not have found a clear argument for their actions, but in the thirties and forties, for them, in most cases everything was clear and understandable.

Woe from Wit?

When asked about why Jews were exterminated in different countries (and this happened not only in Germany of the twentieth century, but also in other countries at different times), representatives of this people often hear the answer: "From envy!" In this version Evaluation of the tragic events has its own logic and truth. The Jewish people presented mankind with many geniuses who shone in science, art, and other areas of human civilization. The ability to adapt, the traditionally active position, active character, subtle and ironic humor, innate musicality, enterprise and other undoubtedly positive qualities are characteristic of the nation that gave the world Einstein, Oistrakh, Marx, Botvinnik ... Yes, you can list for a long time who else. But, most likely, the matter is not only in envy of outstanding mental abilities. In the end, not all Jews are Einsteins. There are among them people and simpler. A sign of real wisdom is not its constant demonstration, but something else. For example, the ability to ensure a friendly environment. It's so that no one even thinks of offending representatives of this people. And not out of fear, but out of respect. Or even love.

Revolutionary weaning money

People of different nationalities are striving for power and wealth. Those who really want to taste these attributes of the earthly paradise, are looking for ways to achieve their own and sometimes find them. Then other people (who can be conditionally called envious persons) have a desire to redistribute the benefits, in other words, to take away the values from the rich and to appropriate them or, in extreme cases, to divide them equally (or fraternally, this is when the eldest is more). During pogroms and revolutions, successful owners of states of different nationalities, from Zulu tsars to Ukrainian higher state officials, come under analysis. But why did they exterminate Jews primarily in virtually all cases of mass robbery? Maybe they have more money?

Strangers and xenophobes

Jews for historical reasons from the earliest times until the middle of the twentieth century did not have their own state. They had to settle in different countries, kingdoms, states and move to new places in search of a better life. Some of the Jews could assimilate, merging into the indigenous ethnos and dissolving into it without a trace. But the nucleus of the nation still retained its identity, religion, language and other attributes that determine national characteristics. It is a miracle in itself, because xenophobia is inherent in almost all indigenous peoples. A lack of similarity causes rejection and hostility, and they, in turn, greatly complicate life.

Knowing that the best enemy to rally the nation could be a common enemy, Hitler exterminated the Jews. Technically, it was easy, they were easy to recognize, they go to synagogues, observe kosher and Saturday, otherwise they dress and sometimes even talk with accent. Moreover, at the time the Nazis came to power, Jews were not able to effectively resist violence, representing an almost ideal ethnically isolated and helpless victim. The desire for self-isolation, which conditioned the survival of the nation, once again worked as a bait for pogromists.

"My struggle" of Hitler

The answer to the question of why Hitler exterminated the Jews, the logical thing to look for in the biographical book of the Fuhrer. In it, the leader of the German people is somewhat in a boring manner, but rather detailed his own political views, as well as appreciated the role of different peoples in the world historical processes. In his opinion, the main enemies of the Germans are the French and Jews. About Slavs, by the way, in "Mein Kampf" it is told a little and casually. Adolf Hitler believed that Jews are a nation parasitizing on a healthy body of Germany, and it is necessary to fight mercilessly with it. At the time of writing the book, this idea was no longer original, something like this claimed and Karl Marx, and Voltaire, and some others are still quite respected now thinkers. But it was Hitler who translated this question into a practical plane, not limited to theoretical positions.

Did the Germans know about Auschwitz and Buchenwald

After the defeat of Nazism, many Germans claimed that they did not know anything about the concentration camps, ghettos, high-performance furnaces of crematoria and giant ditches filled with human bodies. They did not even know about the soap, and the candles made of human fat, and other cases of "useful utilization" of the remains. Some of their neighbors simply disappeared somewhere, and information about atrocities in the occupied territories was not heard by the authorities. It is clear desire to deny responsibility for war crimes of ordinary servicemen and Wehrmacht officers, they pointed to the SS troops, engaged mainly in punitive operations. But there was also a "crystal night" of 1938, during which not only the storm troopers in brown shirts, but also ordinary people were acting. Representatives of the sentimental, talented and industrious German people with sweet ecstasy crushed the property of their recent friends and neighbors, and they themselves were beaten and humiliated. So why did the Germans exterminate the Jews, what are the reasons for the sudden outbreak of fierce hatred? Were there any reasons?

Jews of the Weimar Republic

To understand the reasons why the Germans exterminated the Jews, their recent neighbors and friends, we should immerse ourselves in the atmosphere of the Weimar Republic. Many historical studies have been written about this period, and those who do not want to read scientific volumes can learn about it from the novels of the great writer E. M. Remarque. The country suffers from the unbearable indemnities imposed by the Entente countries that won the Great War. Poverty borders on hunger, while the souls of its citizens are increasingly dominated by a variety of vices caused by forced idleness and the desire to somehow brighten up their gray, beggarly life. But there are also prosperous people, businessmen, bankers, speculators. Entrepreneurship, due to centuries of nomadic life, the Jews in the blood. They became the backbone of the business elite of the Weimar Republic, which existed from 1919 to 1933. There were, of course, also poor Jews, craftsmen, craftsmen, musicians and poets, artists and sculptors, and they were the majority of the people. They basically became the victims of the Holocaust, the rich managed to escape, they had money for tickets.

Why did Hitler exterminate Jews in the occupied Soviet territory

The peak of the holocaust reached during the Second World War. In the territory of occupied Poland, immediately began the work of the "death factory", Majdanek and Auschwitz. But the special flywheel mass murder by nationality scored after the Wehrmacht invasion of the USSR.

There were many Jews in the Lenin Politburo of the Bolshevik Party of Jews, they even formed the majority. By 1941, large-scale cleansing was carried out in the CPSU (B.), As a result of which the national composition of the Kremlin leadership underwent significant changes. But on the grassroots (as they say, "on the ground") levels and in the bodies of the NKVD, the Jewish Bolsheviks still retained a quantitative dominance. Many of them had experience of the Civil War, their merits to the Soviet authorities were assessed as indisputable, they participated in collectivization, industrialization and other large-scale Bolshevik projects. Is it worth asking about why Hitler exterminated Jews and commissars in the occupied Soviet territories in the first place? For the Nazis, these two concepts were virtually identical, and eventually merged into a single whole definition of the "Zhidokommissar."

The vaccine against anti-Semitism

National dislike was gradually instilled. Race theory began to dominate the Third Reich almost immediately after the Nazis came to power. On the screens of the cinemas appeared chronicles of ritual sacrifices, during which the rabbis killed cows, cutting their throats with a sharp knife. Jewish men and women are very beautiful, but Nazi propagandists were not interested in such propaganda. For agitation rollers and posters, "walking aids for anti-Semites" were specially selected, with faces expressing brutal cruelty and stupidity. So the Germans became yudofobami.

After the Victory, the commandant's offices of the victor countries pursued a policy of denazification, and in all four occupation zones: Soviet, American, French and British. Inhabitants of the defeated Reich were actually forced (under threat of deprivation of food rations) to view the exposing documentary films. This measure was aimed at leveling the consequences of the twelve-year "brainwashing" of deceived Germans.

Itself such!

Arguing about geopolitics, preaching the ideals of racial superiority of the Aryans and calling for the destruction of peoples, the Fuhrer nevertheless remained, paradoxically, an ordinary man who suffered a number of psychological complexes. One of them was the question of one's own nationality. To understand why Hitler exterminated the Jews is difficult, but one of the keys can serve as the origin of his father, Alois Schicklgruber. The father of the future Fuhrer received a notorious name only after the official declaration of paternity certified by three witnesses and made by Johann Georg Hitler in 1867 for reasons of inheritance.

Alois himself was married three times, and there is a version that one of his children from a previous marriage tried to blackmail the "leader of the German people" with information about the semi-Jewish origin of their common father. This hypothesis has a number of inconsistencies, but due to chronological remoteness it can not be completely ruled out. But she can explain some subtleties of the morbid psyche of the demon-possessed Fuhrer. In the end, the Jewish anti-Semite is not such a rare phenomenon. And the appearance of Hitler does not correspond to the racial standards adopted in the Third Reich. He was not a tall blue-eyed blonde.

Occult and other causes

Try to explain why Hitler exterminated the Jews, and from the standpoint of the ethical and philosophical base, which he summed up under the process of physical destruction of millions of people. The Fuhrer was fond of occult theories, and his favorite authors were Guido von List and Elena Blavatsky. In general, the version of the origin of the Aryans and the ancient Germans turned out to be rather confused and contradictory, but with respect to the Jews, the policy was based on that mystical assumption that they, identified by Hitler as a separate race, are supposedly dangerous for the whole of humanity, threatening to destroy it completely.

It is difficult to assume that an entire nation can be dragged into a global conspiracy. With a multimillion-digit number, someone would certainly be talking about an anti-human plan, in which everyone participates, from the shoemaker Rabinovich to Professor Geller. On the question of why the fascists exterminated the Jews, there is no logically justified answer.

War crimes against humanity are committed when people refuse to think independently, relying on their leaders, and no doubt, and sometimes with pleasure, fulfill someone's evil will. Unfortunately, similar phenomena still occur today ...