Why did the Nazi regime single out the Jewish people to exterminate?

Answer 1

Because Hitler had a particular dislike for Jewish people. He applied to an art school and was rejected by the (Jewish) headmaster. It seemed to him that most of the bad instances in his life were caused by Jewish people. He was essentially everything he sought to destroy. He wanted an Aryan race of blonde-haired, blue-eyed people, and he himself had brown hair and brown eyes.

Answer 2

The explanation of the Nazis' implacable hatred of the Jew rests on their distorted world view which saw history as a racial struggle. They considered the Jews a race whose goal was world domination and who, therefore, were an obstruction to Aryan dominance. They believed that all of history was a fight between races which should culminate in the triumph of the superior Aryan race. Therefore, they considered it their duty to eliminate the Jews, whom they regarded as a threat. Moreover, in their eyes, the Jews' racial origin made them habitual criminals and born subversives who could never be rehabilitated and were, therefore, hopelessly corrupt and inferior.

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The Jews had already been demonized. There is no doubt that other factors contributed toward Nazi hatred of the Jews and their distorted image of the Jewish people. These included the centuries-old tradition of Christian antisemitism which propagated a negative stereotype of the Jew as a Christ-killer, agent of the devil, and practitioner of witchcraft. Also significant was the political antisemitism of the latter half of the nineteenth and early part of the twentieth centuries, which singled out the Jews as a threat to the established order of society. These combined to point to the Jews as a target for persecution and ultimate destruction by the Nazis.

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These stereotypes were prevalent in many countries, so it is necessary to explain why they became potent and more intense in Germany in a way that was not the case elsewhere.

For this one must turn to the 'stab-in-the-back legend', which claimed that Germany had not been militarily defeated in World War 1 but brought down by (mainly Jewish) subversives on the home front. This went hand in hand with the belief the the Jews were Communists (and that Communism was somehow a specifically Jewish ideology).

The original plan was to expel the Jews from Germany. One needs to bear in mind that the decision to exterminate the Jews dates from 1941, and was probably triggered by the fact that the Nazis had made their self-inflicted 'Jewish problem' more difficult by invading Poland (which had a large Jewish population) and by then isolating them in such a way that most of them became of only marginal economic usefulness to the Nazi conquerors.

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Answer 3

There was a million things said by Hitler of why the Jews were going to be targeted for extermination, but the you should know that he was a anti-semite. That means to hate or discriminate against Jews and that's what Hitler did. There was two main reasons Hitler targeted the Jews and it was:

#1. Economic Depression

#2. Loss of World War 1

Hitler began taking his hatred farther than anyone in history has.

Answer 4

Germany was already an anti-semetic country. After the treaty of Versailles, Germany was left with nothing. Hitler reached a hand to Germany and told them he would help them rise up as a country. Hitler quickly scapegoated the Jews for all of Germany's problems because they were an easy target, and at that point, people were willing to believe anything.

Answer 5

Jews were singled out of the elimination of Jews during the Holocaust because the SS and authorities had weapons and they rounded up Jews in a large number of SS Officers, so if Jew(s) fight back they could shoot them dead as they stood. At the camps, they were trapped by by the SS because their armed and their was electric fenced with a range of 600-2500 volts on electric fences. Also the SS and authorities were strong and trained to kill whiles Jews tried to live as normal people.

So Jews were out numbered and out armed

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Jews were singled out because they had no way of fighting back. They had no country or state that would fight for them, they were not represented at the league of nations, not Britain, nor America, nor the Soviet Union complained at any point at the anit-Jewish measures enacted during the previous eight years, so Hitler knew that he could do what he wanted to the Jews and no one would stop him.

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Another reason is that history always has the Jewish people being singled out. The reason is that before Hitler rose to power Germany's economy was rather weak and many Germans were out of money. However, the Jewish people did. So, Hitler used the people's jealousy against the Jews to allow Hitler to do what he did.

Answer 6

THey singled out the jews because Adolf Hitler thought Christians and Catholics were better than Jewish people so he decided to kill the jewish people