What were the attitudes of the Nazis towards the Jews?

Answer 1

In the Christian world the Jews had for centuries been blamed for the crucifixion of Jesus. This produced a general anti-Jewish environment, which the Nazis built upon. Putting it as simply as possible:

• The Nazis claimed that the German Jews were 'alien', 'un-German' and a 'corrupting influence' on Germany and that they were encouraging immorality.
• The Nazis claimed that the Jews were Communists (and that Communism was a specifically Jewish ideology).
• There were conspiracy theories that claimed that the Jews were trying to achieve 'world domination'.
• The Nazis said that the Jews were enemies of Germany, and that Jews and Germans were locked in a struggle to the death. (This was another of those conspiracy theories that many Nazis took seriously).
• The Nazis claimed that the Jews had made Germany lose World War 1.
• The Nazis subscribed to racialist theories that claimed that the Jews were inferior to others.
• However, Nazi Propaganda also portrayed them as very clever indeed, very dangerous and close to achieving world domination: the two don't even begin to fit.
• Earlier, 'religious' hostility to Judaism had often demonized the Jews and painted them as sinister and evil.

Answer 2

In April 1933 the Nazis:

1. Organized a boycott of Jewish businesses in Berlin.
2. Banned most Jews from employment in the public sector and dismissed those already working in the public sector.
3. Banned Jews from acting and from running theatres.
4. Expelled most Jews from universities and colleges.
5. Banned Jews from the media.

This was the start of a hailstorm of anti-Jewish decrees.

Please see the related question for more detail.

Answer 3

The Nuremberg Race Laws were the rules against Jews.

Answer 4

Jews must not marry or have sexual relations with people with blue eyes and blonde hair.

Answer 5

Everything - their property, their freedom and their lives.

Answer 6

Homicidal hatred and revulsion.