Why did Hitler persecute the elderly?

Answer 1

They where unfit to work, thus a burden to society. This was Hitler's view of socialism, if you can't work for the Nation, the Nation doesn't have to feed you! Caring for the disabled and the elderly was, in his view, a waste of ressources and manpower.

Answer 2

Christians were not persecuted for simply being Christian or for religious observance. Obviously, some Christians from a wide range of denominations were opposed to the Nazi regime (or at least some of its policies) on grounds of conscience. They risked persecuction if they actively opposed the Nazis.

Some nationalities were treated as slave labour by the Nazis, and some of these nations happened to be Christian or saw Christianity as part of their national heritage. Poles, for example, were treated extremely badly - but on racial, not religious grounds.

Answer:

The Nazi regime certainly killed and persecuted Catholics for their religion.

At least 3,000 Catholic priests, deacons, and bishops were imprisoned at Dachau concentration camp. 1,034 priests died there. Other clergymen at Dachau included 109 Protestant ministers, 22 Greek Orthodox, and 2 Muslims.

Hitler closed religious schools, shut down Christian organizations, ordered the murder of priests, not to mention the German leader of Catholic Action. He had Christian civil servants fired, he confiscated church property, censored religious newspapers. and sent thousands of Catholic priests, nuns, and laypeople to die in extermination camps.

Hitler saw the church as the most dangerous impediment to his power in Germany, and as his biographers have noted, spent much time trying to pressure the church into silence.

When Dutch bishops spoke out publicly, Hitler had 40,000 people arrested, but the church increased its efforts to save Jews by issuing forged documents to protect them. The state of Israel says the Catholic church saved 800,000 Jews: more than any other country or organization.

Answer 3

hitler believed that the world should be only german, and people that have blonde hair and blue eyes even when he had brown hair. and he didn't only kill the jews, he killed other religions as well.

Answer 4

during the time it was not just Jews Hitler persecuted. Hitler tried to purify German blood this meant he tried to get rid of all people he thought were imperfect these people included gypsies Jews homosexuals alcoholics the mentally and physically disabled people by locking them up in concentration camps

Answer 5

Because he thought that he ruled everyone and that he should decide who should live or not

Answer 6

Hitler sent the elderly to the gas chambers in concentration camps to be killed.