Why did Hitler start sending people to prison and consentration camps?

Answer 1

Hitler thought that if people weren't on his side they were to be punished. He did not care or decide on what happened to the people that were sent to the camps. As long as the people that went there were traders of the German race.

Answer 2

Technically, Hitler didn't kill them for 'no reason'. The reason why Hitler killed them was because he referred them along with other minorities such as Roma's, person of colour, POWs etc as being inferior to the German Aryan Race.

Answer 3

Hitler was very prejudice against the Jews. Not only for that reason did he commit a genocide against them, but he blamed them all for the faults that had happened during Germany. He blamed them for the economic struggle and for the Treaty of Versailles. He used the Jews as a scapegoat and decided to exterminate them all for his own beliefs.

He also picked up on the old anti-Semitism from the earlier periods. Jews had been blamed for everything - a baby dies, a Jew did it; someone gets sick, a Jew made them sick. It had been going on for centuries before Hitler, probably ever since the Christ had been hung on the cross.

Answer 4

Because he hated Jewish people. As a down-on-luck aspiring painter in Vienna after World War I, he noticed all the successful shops and businesses were run by Jewish people. This made him angry because he considered them 'un-pure.'

Answer 5

Hitler's (and his cronies) goal was to eradicate the Jews from Europe and eventually from the world.