About Hitler's hatred of the Jews?

Answer 1

One of the most extreme cases of hatred for a group of people occurred during the Second World War. Adolf Hitler spearheaded the genocide of the Jewish people. His hatred of the Jewish people arose from many of the experiences of his life and from his perception of the causes of the troubles of the German people.

Many historians have tried to understand Hitler's motivations by looking at contributing factors that may shed some light on the exhibited hatred. Many theories have been pointed to, but they are all theories. Each person has to make up their own mind as to what fueled these reprehensible deeds.

Seeing Syphilis As a Jewish DiseaseThe largest contributing factor of his hatred towards the Jews comes from the state of his mental health. Hitler suffered from advanced stages of syphilis. Tracing his youth back to the time he spent in Vienna, it appears that he may have contracted the disease from a prostitute. The prostitute was of Jewish decent, as can be verified by comments made in Mein Kampf. Hitler thus termed syphilisas a Jewish disease. This opinion and the blame he cast for his illness on the Jewish prostitute may have played some role in his hatred of the Jewish people.

The disease typically exhibits initial symptoms during the first nine months and then appears to go away, but it actually only recedes into dormancy. The disease can lay dormant for up to fifty years before re-emerging. By the time it re-emerges, it has entered its tertiary phase.

Syphilis affects the brain and neurological system during the final stages of the disease. The symptoms that become evident in the final stages include paranoia, bouts of uncontrollable rage, megalomania and irrational actions that can include actions of extreme cruelty and violence.

Fighting a loosing battle with syphilis certainly could have fed his preoccupation with the Jewish people, as could the fact that he blamed them for his condition. Unfortunately, because his body was burned after he committed suicide at the end of the war, an autopsy was not possible to prove one way or another if he indeed had syphilis.

The Loss of the WarAnother factor may also explain why Hitler hated the jews. The consensus of the population at the end of World War I was that the Jews played a large role in the fact that Germany had lost the war. As a result of the defeat, Germany was in deep debt to the allied powers. The debt that they were under was wreaking havoc with the economy of Germany during that period.

The anti-Semitic opinions that abounded during those days provided the perfect opportunity for Hitler to rise in the ranks of political power. He was elected Chancellor of the country just before the beginnings of World War II. He used the prevalent feelings of society to fuel his hunger for power. He was a master of Propaganda and manipulating public opinion. His policies and programs that were instituted shortly after he took power solidified the German people behind his leadership, which only made it that much easier for him to carry out his own private agenda of hate.

Treatment of His FamilySome reports also suggest that in his childhood he had a connection with the Jewish people. His mother was reported as having worked as a maid for a wealthy Jewish family. She was discharged from that job after becoming pregnant, and it was assumed that the father was the husband of the house. This would make Hitler part Jewish, through the father. His hatred could have been fed by the treatment of his mother by someone of Jewish descent. Wealth and the EconomyThe final potential reason for Hitler's hatred is that, at the time, the Jewish people held a great deal of the wealth of society and were blamed for part of the economic woes of the German people following World War I.

Answer 2

The fact that he was bullied primarily by Jewish boys in school, and from, well, basically hatred descendance.