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In order to unite a diverse group, a government needs to create a common enemy. By selecting an identifiable subgroup as this common enemy, the Nazi party was able to build an 'Us versus Them' attitude that brought the average man closer to the banner of the Nazi party.

It also encourages the average man to accept the violation of the 'enemy's' rights and creates an atmosphere that allows more and more government abuse to be called 'protection'.

It is a strategy that worked and still works. In recent times the US Government has gotten most of it's citizens to accept blatant violations of our civil rights by manufacturing villains in drug dealers and gangs (in the 80's and 90's) and most recently 'terrorists'.

While each of these groups do exist and do pose some form of threat, the universal response by the government has been to reduce and restrict the individual liberty of the citizen in the cause of reducing the 'threat'.

So far only the liberties of the citizen have been hurt, each 'threat' remains largely unaffected.

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Why Hitler Singled Out Jews

I suppose the short answer is "because he could." For 2000 years, sad to say, anti-Jewish attitudes had been a part of Christianity. No I am not saying all Christians felt that way, and no I am not saying Hitler was a "typical" Christian. But in many countries, the idea that the Jews were evil, or greedy or even satanic, and the belief that they had killed Jesus, were embedded in the culture and Christian religious schools taught this viewpoint. It was in songs, in essays in supposedly scholarly magazines and journals, even in textbooks, and not enough Christians challenged it. (I can speak from experience-- I was beaten up and called a Christ-killer when I was a kid, and to this day, I still meet people who were taught that Jews are all rich or control the media-- neither is true... Obviously, I didn't have it anywhere nearly as bad as the Jews of Europe-- I got insulted and pushed down a flight of stairs at school, whereas 6 million European Jews lost their jobs, their homes, their possessions, and their lives.)

Hitler was clever enough to know that he could call upon ancient stereotypes and most people would agree, since they had heard these stereotypes for years, and even the clergy seemed to go along. So Hitler was able to accuse a tiny fragment of the German population (the Jews) of causing all of Germany's problems, and he was able to keep building that hatred to the point where ordinary Germans believed it was okay to murder innocent Jewish people. Hitler was not the first to encourage this, and it's unfortunate that his legacy still lives on in a number of countries where they still accept what he taught.

It wasn't really till the mid 60s when the Catholic Church, led by a handful of cardinals like Richard Cardinal Cushing and encouraged by Pope John 23rd, FINALLY rejected the false accusations against the Jews and actively began teaching that Judaism was not evil nor were the Jews guilty of killing Jesus. The start of the so-called "ecumenical movement" was when things began to improve in inter-faith relationships. And then other Christian denominations, such as the Lutherans, began examining how they had either remained silent or actively contributed to anti-Jewish teaching over the years. If the questioner would like scholarly articles about how Hitler used anti-Jewish stereotypes to stir up an angry and frightened German populus, or about how things finally changed, I can make some suggestions. (And by the way, Jews are a religion, not a race. Hitler tried to convince the public that Judaism was like an inherited disease... but these days, the idea of a "Jewish race" is not as common as it was during the past century.)

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Since the 1870s a new wave of secular (that is, non-religious) anti-Jewish racial conspiracy theories developed. These theories made a great song and dance about assimilated Jews as the bearers of some specific features of the modern world - such as big cities, liberalism, capitalism, (the early emergence of a 'global' economy before 1914), the mass media and, later, also socialism and Bolshevism. These conspiracy theories were particularly popular in Tsarist Russia, where they were encouraged by the government and the secret police. However, in Central Europe and France similar theories were encouraged by the Roman Catholic Church (in the full knowledge that they were false). This kind of anti-semitism appealed in particular to groups having problems coming to terms with the modern world, such as the lower ranks of the aristocracy, craftsmen and some small shopkeepers. In France, Germany and much of Austria-Hungary these conspiracy theories saw assimilated Jews, who no longer wore distinctive dress, did not speak Yiddish and had in many cases ceased to practice their religion - in short, who often weren't obviously recognizable - as a real threat.

This guy is some what right the other main reason why adolf hitler chose the jewish people was becasue there was rumors that adolf hitlers father was a jewish and that is the other reason why he took his home town Braunau am Inn, Austria-Hungary because of this facts hitler really killed his own people he about 80% Jewish ancestry.

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The Jewish people has been the scapegoat for almost every civilization from the beginning of time. Adolf Hitler blamed the Jews, because he knew how Antisemitic the German people were. I think he was totally convinced that the Jews were the reason that Germany was in such a bad shape in his time.

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Hardline German nationalists refused to believe that Germany had actually been defeated in World War 1. In particular, they felt cheated of their brief victory over Russia. At the time many dangerous stereotypes circulated about the Jews, who were demonized. In many countries, including Britain and the U.S. there was a tendency among some on the political Right even to equate Jews and Bolshevists. It was very easy to construct a conspiracy theory linking Jews with Communism. However, Britain and the U.S. were among the victors in World War 1 and had no particular axe to grind. In Germany, which had been defeated and experienced a revolution (of sorts, anyway) there was a strong temptation on the political Right to find a scapegoat ... The Jews, demonized as leftists and subversives, were a very obvious candidate, above all in Bavaria, where a number of Jews had been prominent in the upheavals of 1918-19. The Nazis were initially a regional Bavarian party and their natural habitat was among the rowdy, violent, veteran-frequented beer-halls of Bavaria, which became rabidly, hysterically, frenetically anti-Jewish. Moreover, there is evidence that the Nazis were strongly influenced by emigrés from Russia. (See link to Michael Kellogg). Please see all the links for more detail on the various aspects of the question.

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He chose the smallest, weakest people he could find and blamed them.

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personal bias, personal beliefs

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