Treatment of Ethnic Minorities by Nazi Germany

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Treatment of Ethnic Minorities by Nazi Germany

Hitler hated three kinds of people- Jews, communists and democracy and

in his view they were all connected. Hitler believed that the Aryan

people were the master race, and most of theses people were Germans.

He believed that Jews were an "inferior species". He believed that

what the Jews believed in was spreading and crushing Germany. Anything

Jewish was wrong. He spoke of a myth that the Jewish bankers planned

to break down the financial system and that this was a reason that war

broke out in 1914.

Hitler hated Bolshevism (communism) because he saw it as a Jewish

belief. The Jewish founder, Karl Marx, set out to break the world

politically, just as the Jews were breaking it racially. Hitler

believed that the reason why communism had taken over in Russia was

because most of Russians were Slavs, who just like the Jews were a

sub-human species. Hitler called the Slavs rabbit people, only here to

reproduce, but unable to organize themselves. That's why Hitler

admired Stalin for turning such a degraded form of people into a

nation. IN Hitler's book Mein Kampf, he said that it was Germany's job

to be the saviour of the Aryan race by killing all the Jews and

seizing the Slavs land of the East. This was the goal of the National

Socialists.

Hitler believed that democracy was a product of the Jews. That's why

he believed it was such a weak political system. He didn't believe in

compromise and so he thought it lacked purpose. If democracy were to

be allowed in Germany it would wreck the whole country and prevent it

from it's destiny. When Hitler came to power he got rid of the whole

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is primary evidence. The source was produced in 1938. The Nazi's must

have produced this anti Jewish picture for the children to use as part

of their propaganda. The source was produced in Germany. The source

was produced as a use of propaganda. They fed children's minds to

believe that Jews were bad so that they would go home and tell their

parents. This source is biased as it shows what the Nazi's wanted life

to be like. They wanted the Jews to leave. It shows the Jews in a bad

way, it shows them mocking the other children. They are shown sticking

their tongues out at the Germans and pulling out their hair. The

German girl is pure German with feminine features and the Jewish boy

is trying to wreck that by ripping out her hair and making her look

bad. This is how Hitler saw things not how the people did.

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