Actually, you think it was the German people who blamed the Jews for the loss of World War I, but it was Hitler who convinced them to blame them. You may call it hypnotizing them, but he grabbed their attention with his powerful speeches. He's obviously wrong because Jews did not even make up 1 percent of their population, so there would not be much they can do to make Germany lose World War I against millions of German soldiers. They lived peacefully until Hitler changed everything and turned it all against them.
Many Germans had the most excruciating difficulty believing that they had really been defeated on the battlefield. Reasons for this reluctance included:
In particular, the senior military cultivated the myth that Germany had been 'stabbed in the back' on the home front. The generals wanted to preserve their own prestige as far as possible. In fact on 1 October 1918, Ludendorff had resolved that it would be a new (left wing) civilian government that would sign the armistice. It was a great mistake of the Allies not to make Hindenburg and Ludendorff sign the armistice in person, but civilians. (The Allies didn't repeat this mistake in 1945).
There was a revolution of sorts in Germany in November 1918. Far, far too much had been demanded of the German population, and it was starving by then. They had been periodic labour unrest in Germany since January 1918. The revolution was triggered by an order given to the German Navy to take on the British Navy in a 'die and die' mission: the men simply refused, and mutinied.
There were two versions of the stab-in-the-back legend, as it is usually called in English. The first was simply that the home front had been wrecked by subversives. The other version was antisemitic, claiming the it was specifically Jewish subversives who had fomented unrest for their own purposes. Since the Russian Revolution of October 1917 Communism had been widely associated with Jews. It so happened that in Bavaria (but not in other parts of Germany) Jews had played a prominent part in the revolution. It was, above all, in Bavaria that the hardline nationalists became intensely, hysterically, frenetically antisemitic. In January 1919, the forerunner of the Nazi Party was founded in Bavaria as a specifically anti-'Judeo-Communist' party.
Having said all this, it should be stressed that by no means all Germans believed the stab-in-the-back legend, and of those who did, many did not (initially anyway) subscribe to the antisemitic version of it. However, it became a key theme in Nazi Propaganda.
"The Germans" did not claim that. It was above all the Nazis that believed crazy conspiracy theories.
The Germans could not face the facts that they lost the war and the blame was their own.
the Jews did nothing wrong. its was just after the first world war and Germany was in a terrible state the NAZI party rose to power and Adolf Hitler blamed the Jews on the state of Germany. that is why the Germans built the concentration camps so they could make the Jews suffer how the Germans thought the Jews made their country suffer.
After Hitler started world war two, the Germans saw the real deal. They wanted prosperity and such but that war was so hard on the whole world and the majority of the Germans were not in accordance of Hitler's moral.
The question seems rather odd, as the war was not fought between Germans and Jews ... However, the number of Germans who were killed in World War 2 is estimated at about 7.2 million, and the number of Jews killed at about 6 million. However, I really do not see the relevance of the comparison.
No. Not all Germans are Jews and not all Jews are German. But there are German Jews, as well as Jews with many other nationalities.
The Germans worked the Jews to death by having them as sleves
well the Germans wanted to killed Jewish people because of Hitler he started World war 1 and 2
No, not all Germans hates the Jews. However, the particular group of Germans that hates the Jews were called the Nazi Germans.
the Jews did nothing wrong. its was just after the first world war and Germany was in a terrible state the NAZI party rose to power and Adolf Hitler blamed the Jews on the state of Germany. that is why the Germans built the concentration camps so they could make the Jews suffer how the Germans thought the Jews made their country suffer.
After Hitler started world war two, the Germans saw the real deal. They wanted prosperity and such but that war was so hard on the whole world and the majority of the Germans were not in accordance of Hitler's moral.
There are Jews in most countries of the world. Notable exceptions are Saudi Arabia and North Korea, which claim to have no Jews.
No. Not all Germans are Jews and not all Jews are German. But there are German Jews, as well as Jews with many other nationalities.
The question seems rather odd, as the war was not fought between Germans and Jews ... However, the number of Germans who were killed in World War 2 is estimated at about 7.2 million, and the number of Jews killed at about 6 million. However, I really do not see the relevance of the comparison.
The Nazis believed many, often contradictory, things about the Jews. One of the Nazis' favourite themes was that the Jews and the Germans were locked in some mysterious struggle for domination of Germany, Europe, even the world!
The Germans worked the Jews to death by having them as sleves
the Germans captured the Jewish people because Adolf Hitler blamed the Jew for the Germans losing World War 1.
The corpses were buried or cremated.
He blamed Jews for Germany's problems and encouraged Germans to join the Nazis in attacking Jews.