Why did the Nazi Germans dislike Jews?

Answer 1

The reason why Hitler and Nazis hated Jewish people is for many reasons. One is becuase of their color of their skin. Like how it went the rasicm in America and black and whites. The whites hated blacks and thought they were nothing. Not people. Same thing with Jewish and Nazis. The Nazis used Jews as slaves even.

Answer 2

Because Germany was having economical and social problems and it is easier to blame troubles on somebody else. By hating the Jews Hitler and the Nazi Party created a common enemy to unite Germany.

Answer 3

Is this perhaps one of many reasons that drove the antisemitism of Nazi Germany? Yes.

This time in Europe and Germany was also known as the "Golden Age of Jewry". Even though there were many poor Jews, there was a new class of the intelligentsia and an upper and middle class as well. Their cultural values of education, and their historical diaspora which inspired building of wealth led them to a renaissance period that inspired jealousy in others. It was a time for Jewish scientists, doctors, lawyers, musicians, artists and merchants. Religion required the study the Torah, therefore literacy, and this discipline lent to the study of many things with an emphasis on more education. Combined with a relaxation of orthodoxy and a desire to blend with their new homelands, many thought of themselves as more French, Italian, or German than Jews. Some of the greatest minds in the world were Jewish and either fled the Nazis or waited too long and perished. These included Albert Einstein. Sigmund Freud, and Marc Chagall, but the list is long and you should look it up.

Did this inspire jealousy? In "Mein Kampf" Hitler describes Jews as the flies on the dunghills of life. Racism makes no sense. Carl Jung suggested it is the projection of our own inner self hatred. Hitler was not an educated man. Not many SS officers were. The brown shirts came from the lower working class of Germany. They had no value for education or talent in particular unless it was of was use to them directly. They didn't appreciate it. They misunderstood it. These can often be seen as parts of jealousy. Because even if we don't value something consciously, surely on some level we recognize it and doing so makes us realize a deficit within ourselves. Is jealousy the feeling of less than someone else? Wanting what they have? Perhaps envy is even more appropriate term.

Answer 4

Hitler and the Nazis hated the Jews; there was no jealousy involved.

Answer 5

Many Germans are Jews. Many Jews are German and British, Norwegian, Australian etc.

Germans like Jews just fine.