How did the nazi party convince the German people to hate and eventually allow the killing of 6.8 millions jewish and 7 million non Jewish people?

Answer 1

After WW1, Germany was a mess - at certain points, their money was literally not worth the paper it was printed on. That's a very scary thing to have happen, because you're never sure if you'll get food or clothing or medicine if you get sick. And when things are going that badly and people are scared, they often look for someone to blame or something to do, because then they are less scared. They also look for a leader, because they need someone to protect them.

Hitler was a very charismatic speaker, who filled the role of leader really well. And he picked the Jews as the people to blame, along with Communists, intellectuals, homosexuals, etc. He also gave the German people a vision of themselves as perfect and ideal, with a higher calling that could only be fulfilled if they got rid of undesireables. All those things are very, very inviting ideas if you are starving and frightened, and it worked.

It's also true that orthodox Jewish religious doctrine encourages Jews to think of themselves as "God's Chosen People" and a cut above the rest of us.

Put that together with certain behaviors that set them apart (distinctive clothing and hair styles among the Chasidim, for example) and it's not hard for unscrupulous people in power to take the heat off themselves by pointing at the "foreigners", the ones who aren't "real" Germans/English/Americans/whatever.

The same scapegoating is currently underway in the US, with Muslim Americans and Arab-Americans as the victims.

During WW2 it was Japanese-Americans, and in WW1 the German-Americans. We're not currently rounding up the Muslims or Arabs and putting them in concentration camps, the way we did the Japanese-Americans in WW2, but what will happen next year?

Comments

1. Many of the points in the second contribution are not well informed and are based on inaccurate and irrelevant stereotypes and guesswork.

2. Germany was one of leading bastions of Reform Judaism, and by c.1880 most Jews were highly integrated in German society. Many made a point of avoiding conspicuous difference, and some went out of their way to be thoroughly German. (Only a minority were Othodox and they were certainly not Chassidic!) It has sometimes been said that the level of integration was a double edged thing and made it easy for the Nazis to talk about 'secret' Jews 'lurking' in all kinds of unlikely places close to the levers of power. In reality the Jews were in a 'no-win' situation.

3. Similarly, most German Jews downplayed or simply didn't talk about being 'God's chosen people'. (Incidentally, it's not unknown for born again Christians to talk in rather similar terms).

I think one must look for other answers to this question. Key points include these:

1. German nationalists found the defeat of Germany in World War 1 unbearable - much more unbearable than the Treaty of Versailles - and retreated into denial of the defeat and a deep-seated yearning for a 're-run' of World War 1.
2. The German nationalists therefore claimed that Germany had not be defeated on the battlefield but had been stabbed in the back by subversives on the home front.
3. The more extreme Nationalists demonized "the Jews" as Communists and subversives and as part of a worldwide Bolshevik conspiracy.
4. In the immediate aftermath of World War 1 and in the 1920s Germany was war weary and views 1-3 appealed only to a minority of the German electorate. From 1930 on, the devastating effects of the Great Depression caused immense frustration and anger, and changed the situation.
5. The Nazi leadership did not, of course, publicize the Holocaust or its various other atrocities. Most ordinary Germans didn't want to know these things. The German population was not informed about the Holocaust and it certainly was not something that was discussed in public. The number of Germans actively involved was relatively small.

Answer 2

convinving them to hate was not hard, they used the methods that politicians have always used and will always use: they used people's fear of losing their livelyhood and the need to protect their children. The demonised the Jews, portraying them as an evil that had to be taken out of society for the society to be prosperous and safe.

The Jews were hated in many places, in many countries and continents, but it took more to move the people to mass murder, out of all of those countries it was the Nazis that managed to get the people to commit mass murder.

Answer 3

The Nazis convinced the German public into allowing them to kill 14 million people by through Terror and Nazi Propaganda.

The Nazis used terror to make sure the German public dont get involve with the mass murders. Also the nazis did put people who resisted the deaths in the camps.

The Nazis used simple Nazi Propaganda onto showing that only way Germany to reddem itself is to make it pure and to make it pure, we need to kill everyone who isn't pure or a German citizen.

Answer 4

The Germans were looking for someone to blame all of their problems on. Hitler said that the Jews caused all of their suffering (which is not true).