Antisemitism is a shameful phenomenon. Actually, any oppression, and even more so the physical destruction of people on a national basis, is criminal, especially if it is initiated by the government and carried out on a national scale. History knows cases of mass genocide against representatives of different peoples. Hundreds of thousands of Armenians were destroyed by the Turks at the turn of the 19th and 20th centuries. Not everyone knows how cruelly Japanese soldiers de alt with the Chinese during the occupation of Nanjing and Singapore in the late 30s. Mass executions of the Serbian population were carried out during the war by the allies of Nazi Germany, the Croatian Ustaše. By historical standards, recently, in 1994, terrible purges along ethnic lines (Hutus were killed by Tutsis) shocked Rwanda.
But there is a nation that has experienced the worst ethnic persecution of the twentieth century, known as the Holocaust. Modern Germans cannot unequivocally explain why their grandfathers, who grew up under the influence of Goebbels' propaganda, exterminated the Jews. It is possible that the ancestors themselves would not have found a cleararguments for their actions, but in the thirties and forties for them in most cases everything was clear and understandable.
Woe from Wit?
When asked why Jews were exterminated in different countries (and this happened not only in Germany of the twentieth century, but also in other countries at different times), representatives of this people most often answer: “Out of envy ! This version of the assessment of tragic events has its own logic and truth. The Jewish people gave mankind many geniuses who shone in science, in art, and in other areas of human civilization. The ability to adapt, a traditionally active position, an active character, subtle and ironic humor, innate musicality, enterprise and other unconditionally positive qualities are characteristic of the nation that gave the world Einstein, Oistrakh, Marx, Botvinnik … Yes, you can list for a long time who else. But, apparently, it's not just envy of outstanding mental abilities. After all, not all Jews are Einsteins. There are people among them and simpler. The sign of true wisdom is not its constant demonstration, but something else. For example, the ability to provide a friendly environment. Such that it would never occur to anyone to offend the representatives of this people. Not out of fear, but out of respect. Or even love.
Revolutionary money grab
People of different nationalities strive for power and we alth. Anyone who truly wants to taste these attributes of an earthly paradise is looking for ways to achieve his goal and sometimes finds them. Then otherspeople (who can be conditionally called envious) there is a desire to redistribute we alth, in other words, to take away values from the rich and appropriate them or, in extreme cases, divide them equally (or fraternally, this is when the eldest has more). During pogroms and revolutions, successful owners of fortunes of different nationalities, from Zulu kings to Ukrainian high government officials, fall under the scrutiny. But why were the Jews exterminated in the first place in almost all cases of mass robbery? Maybe they have more money?
Outsiders and xenophobes
Jews for historical reasons from ancient times until the middle of the twentieth century did not have their own state. They had to settle in different countries, kingdoms, states and move to new places in search of a better life. Some of the Jews were able to assimilate, merging into the indigenous ethnic group and dissolving into it without a trace. But the core of the nation still retained its identity, religion, language and other features that define national characteristics. In itself, this is a miracle, because xenophobia is inherent in one way or another in almost all indigenous ethnic groups. Otherness causes rejection and hostility, and they, in turn, greatly complicate life.
Knowing that the best reason for uniting the nation can be a common enemy, Hitler exterminated the Jews. Technically, it was simple, they were easy to recognize, they go to synagogues, keep kosher and Sabbath, dress differently and sometimes even speak with an accent. In addition, at the time of coming to powerJews did not have the ability to effectively resist violence, representing an almost ideal ethnically isolated and helpless victim. The desire for self-isolation, which determined the survival of the nation, once again worked as a bait for the rioters.
Hitler's "My Struggle"
The answer to the question of why Hitler exterminated the Jews is most logical to look for in the Fuhrer's biographical book. In it, the leader of the German people, somewhat in a boring manner, but in sufficient detail, outlined his own political views, and also assessed the role of different peoples in world historical processes. In his opinion, the main enemies of the Germans are the French and the Jews. About the Slavs, by the way, in "Mein Kampf" little is said and in passing. Adolf Hitler believed that the Jews are a nation that parasitizes on the he althy body of Germany, and it must be fought mercilessly. At the time of writing the book, this idea was no longer original, Karl Marx, Voltaire, and some other now quite respected thinkers asserted something similar. But it was Hitler who translated this issue into a practical plane, not limited to theoretical provisions.
Did the Germans know about Auschwitz and Buchenwald
After the defeat of Nazism, many Germans claimed they knew nothing about concentration camps, ghettos, high-performance crematorium ovens and giant ditches filled with human bodies. They did not know about soap, and candles made from human fat, and other cases of “useful disposal”remains. Some of their neighbors simply disappeared somewhere, and the authorities did not hear about the atrocities committed in the occupied territories. The desire to disown responsibility for war crimes of ordinary soldiers and officers of the Wehrmacht is understandable; they pointed to the SS troops, which were mainly engaged in punitive operations. But there was also the “Kristallnacht” of 1938, during which not only attack aircraft in brown shirts operated, but also the most ordinary inhabitants. Representatives of the sentimental, talented and industrious German people with sweet ecstasy destroyed the property of their recent friends and neighbors, and they themselves were beaten and humiliated. So why did the Germans exterminate the Jews, what are the reasons for the sudden outbreak of fierce hatred? Were there reasons?
Jews of the Weimar Republic
To understand the reasons why the Germans, their recent neighbors and friends exterminated the Jews, one should plunge into the atmosphere of the Weimar Republic. Many historical studies have been written about this period, and those who do not want to read scientific tomes have the opportunity to learn about it from the novels of the great writer E. M. Remarque. The country suffers from unbearable indemnities imposed by the Entente countries that won the Great War. Poverty borders on hunger, while the souls of its citizens are increasingly seized by various vices caused by forced idleness and the desire to somehow brighten up their gray beggarly life. But there are also successful people, businessmen, bankers, speculators. Entrepreneurship, for a reasoncenturies of nomadic life, the Jews in the blood. It was they who became the backbone of the business elite of the Weimar Republic, which existed from 1919 to 1933. There were, of course, poor Jews, artisans, working artisans, musicians and poets, painters and sculptors, and they made up the majority of the people. They were basically the victims of the Holocaust, the rich managed to escape, they had money for tickets.
Why did Hitler exterminate Jews in the occupied Soviet territory
The Holocaust reached its peak during World War II. On the territory of occupied Poland, the “death factories”, Majdanek and Auschwitz immediately began to work. But the flywheel of mass murder on a national basis gained special momentum after the invasion of the Wehrmacht in the USSR.
There were many Jews in the Leninist Politburo of the Bolshevik Party, they even made up the majority. By 1941, large-scale purges took place in the CPSU (b), as a result of which the national composition of the Kremlin leadership underwent significant changes. But at the grassroots (as they say, "on the ground") levels and in the organs of the NKVD, the Jewish Bolsheviks still retained quantitative dominance. Many of them had experience of the Civil War, their merits before the Soviet government were assessed as indisputable, they participated in collectivization, industrialization and other large-scale Bolshevik projects. Is it worth asking why Hitler exterminated Jews and commissars in the occupied Soviet territories in the first place? For the Nazis, these two concepts were practically identical and eventually merged into a single whole definition of "Jewish Commissar".
Anti-Semitism Vaccine
National hostility was inculcated gradually. Racial theory became dominant in the Third Reich almost immediately after the Nazis came to power. On the screens of cinemas there were chronicles of ritual sacrifices, during which rabbis killed cows by cutting their throats with a sharp knife. Jewish men and women can be very beautiful, but Nazi propagandists were not interested in such. For campaign videos and posters, “walking aids for anti-Semites” were specially chosen, with faces expressing brutal cruelty and stupidity. This is how the Germans became anti-Semites.
After the Victory, the commandant's offices of the victorious countries pursued a policy of denazification, and in all four occupation zones: Soviet, American, French and British. The inhabitants of the defeated Reich were actually forced (under the threat of deprivation of food rations) to watch revealing documentaries. This measure was aimed at leveling the consequences of twelve years of brainwashing of deceived Germans.
He's like that
Discussing geopolitics, preaching the ideals of racial superiority of the Aryans and calling for the destruction of peoples, the Fuhrer nevertheless remained, paradoxically, an ordinary person who suffered from a number of psychological complexes. One of them was the question of one's own nationality. It is difficult to figure out why Hitler exterminated the Jews, but one of the clues may be the origin of his father, Alois Schicklgruber. The infamous surname dadreceived the future Fuhrer only after an official statement of paternity, certified by three witnesses and made by Johann Georg Hitler in 1867, for reasons of inheritance.
Alois himself was married three times, and there is a version that one of his children from a previous marriage tried to blackmail the "leader of the German people" with information about the semi-Jewish origin of their common father. This hypothesis has a number of inconsistencies, but due to chronological remoteness it cannot be completely ruled out. But she can explain some of the subtleties of the morbid psyche of the demon-possessed Fuhrer. After all, an anti-Semitic Jew is not such a rare occurrence. And Hitler's appearance does not at all correspond to the racial standards adopted in the Third Reich. He was not a tall blue-eyed blond.
Occult and other causes
It is also possible to try to explain why Hitler exterminated the Jews from the standpoint of the ethical and philosophical base that he brought under the process of the physical destruction of millions of people. The Fuhrer was fond of occult theories, and his favorite authors were Guido von List and Helena Blavatsky. In general, the version of the origin of the Aryans and the ancient Germans turned out to be rather confused and contradictory, but with regard to the Jews, the policy was based on the mystical assumption that they, identified by Hitler as a separate race, allegedly pose a danger to all mankind, threatening it with complete destruction.
Assume that an entire nation can be drawn intosome global conspiracy, it's hard. With a multimillion-strong population, someone would surely blabbed about the inhumane plan, in which everyone participates, from the shoemaker Rabinovich to Professor Geller. There is no logically justified answer to the question of why the Nazis exterminated the Jews.
War crimes against humanity are committed when people refuse to think for themselves, relying on their leaders, and without a doubt, and sometimes with pleasure, do someone else's evil will. Unfortunately, such phenomena still take place today…
