Hitler and Anti-Semitism Analysis

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Throughout the centuries, there has been a strong and persistent hatred towards Jews. The origins of this loathing have arose from factors such as religious beliefs, economic factors, nationalism, and beliefs about race and biology. One of the most prominent anti-sematic figures in history was Adolf Hitler, who had numerous reasons to detest the Jews. Hitler had a vision that Germany would one day have the perfect race; the Aryan race and that was Hitler’s primary focus.

Hitler gained his anti-sematic views as a young man while he lived in the capitol city, Vienna. There, he claimed that he found out what the world was like and he also learned more about the Jews. At the time, there was a rather large Jewish population living in the city, and Hitler discovered that he could declare them as the scapegoat for all of Europe’s problems. During his stay in Vienna, Hitler saw how much progress Vienna’s mayor, Karl Luger, had with his political career based on anti-semitic policies.

Another possibility how Hitler gained his views were all of the anti-semitic literature that was provided in Vienna. After World War I, Hitler was deranged in thinking that Germany was defeated and he thought there was no possible explanation for why the Germans lost. Adolf Hitler made an irrational decision and decided that Germany lost WWI due to the lack of support from the Jews. Whether the Jews did not support the war or not enough soldiers were enlisted and on the battlefront, Hitler came up with numerous reasons why Germany should blame the Jewish people. Besides saying that the Jews betrayed Germany, Germans without Hitler’s input, claimed that the Jews were communists. This was a typical reaction for Germans to say since they despised the Jews t...

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Jews out of Germany, therefore not caring about the Jews national pride and status.

Jews also had a bed reputation in Germany for stealing work from Germans.

It was frowned upon in society at this time to work for a Jew, and Germans thought

if one owned a business, that they were working on the backs of the Germans and

that the Jews were corrupt.

In conclusion, Hitler had his anti-sematic views and had numerous reasons to detest the Jews. Hitler had a vision that Germany would one day have the perfect race; the Aryan race and that was Hitler’s primary focus when he was the ruler of Germany. Even though there were other factors that contributed such as lack of nationalism and stealing work from the “hard working Germans,” biology was the pivotal reason for the mass killing of Jews so that one day, Hitler could have the purest race in Europe.

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