What did Hitler mean by 'the Jewish problem'?

Answer 1

Hitler hated the Jews dispite his grandmother was a Jew. I believe its refers to the "Final Solution" described on his book "Mein Kampf".

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Hitler chose to regard the Jews as a problem. He saw them as the root of Communism and as the cause of all Germany's misfortunes. He believed in fanciful conspiracy theories which saw the Jews as some kind of threat. Please see related question. (Incidentally, there's no evidence that he had a Jewish grandparent and there's no mention of genocide or the 'Final Solution' in 'Mein Kampf').

Answer 2

The Jewish Question was essentially, What shall we do with the Jews?

The Jews were considered to be unregistered immigrants, who avoided being

assimilated into their Host countries, rather like the Gypsies. They avoided

taxes, military service and moved to new countries whenever they came

under too much Government attention. And they passed this characteristic

down to their children.

By no criteria, could they be considered to be good citizens. That is the Jewish Problem.

In the Northern European countries with their desire for efficiency and regimentation,

the Jews were considered obstacles to a well run country.

Hitler was a fanatic on this subject, and pursued the elimination of Jews from Germany in many

ways once he came to power. He made their life hard, and prohibited them from

high level government or professional jobs. He encouraged gangs to harry them into emigration,

but with out much success. So in the end, he fell back to the final most extreme solution to solve

Jewish Problem.

Answer 3

One of the principle questions of Jewish History in Europe was the so-called "Judenfrage" or "Jewish Question". This issue did not start with Hitler and was part of European discussions about Jews and even among Jews in Europe. The question was whether Jews could actually be part of Europe as European citizens.

It seems obvious to the majority of Europeans today that Jewish values and Jewish behaviors are completely in-sync with those of the Christian majority of Europeans, but this was not the case through the modern European history. Some people did believe then, as now, that Jews can be honorable European citizens, but this was a small minority. Some people believed that the religion of Judaism prevented Jews from acceding to European values, so they would need to convert to Christianity to become Europeans. Some people believed that Jews were foreign invaders who had a cultural agenda completely inconsonant with Europeans, so they needed to be culturally converted to Christian behaviors. Still, others believed that Jews were a different type or race of human that could not be civilized to European norms because those norms could not cross the racial divide, so Jews would need to be removed from Europe or sufficiently monitored and controlled just as anyone would monitor and control gorillas or chimpanzees in a zoo.

Hitler believed that the last of these conditions was true. As a result, he engineered the destruction of the Jews, the Holocaust, in order to remove the Jews from Europe. And, of course, if there were no more Jews in Europe, the Judenfrage of whether Jews could actually be European citizens would finally be answered. "No. Jews cannot be Europeans. As a result, there are no European Jews." The idea that the extermination of the Jews would be the resolution to this question is why the Holocaust was labeled as the "Final Solution".