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hitler`s views concering the jews and the nazi policies against jews

Hitler 's View and Nazi Policy Against Jews

Adolph Hitler believed that the German Aryan Race was superior to all other ethnic groups but were considered a threat equal to that of the Jews . To Hitler , the Jew represented the unnatural and hence atheistic principle of the counter-man . From the beginning of his political career , Hitler saw the Jews as the personification of a great lie which denied the sovereignty of the laws of nature (and thus God Again and again , Hitler associated the Jews with lying . The Jews "whole existence " he

maintained , was "based on a continuous lie (Birken 68

Hitler saw the Jews as a whole rather than a group of individuals He considered the whole Jewish population to be liars , thieves and a danger to the wholesome goodness of the Aryan race . It was his perception of the Jews contamination of Germany on which he based his laws and the propaganda used by the Nazi 's in their attempt to eliminate the Jews

To the old notion of the Jew as usurer , Hitler (like Streicher added the unsavory image of the Jew as pervert . But in the end , he saw both Jewish exploitation and Jewish seduction as mere tactics in the service of a far more sinister strategy . Hitler believed , the Jews real problem was their fundamental lack of creativity and thus their lack of humanity . Of course , Hitler 's condemnation of the Jewish people for their cultural sterility was not a charge that could be answered by merely pointing to the number of Jews who had won this or that academic prize . He was not so much claiming that individual Jews were worthless as that the Jewish people as a whole had no national culture "They were , Hitler told Otto Wegener 'a parasitic genus " HYPERLINK "http /www .questia .com /PM .qst ?a o d (Birken 72 ,74 Through out his career .almost all of his speeches centered around the following three themes (1 ) the treason of the November criminals (2 ) the rule of the Marxists must be broken and (3 ) the world domination of the Jews . No matter what " HYPERLINK "http /www .questia .com /PM .qst ?a o d 7 (Langer 50

These beliefs , instead of dissipating , become more and more fanatical as Hitler 's power in Germany increased . He blamed the Jews along with other ethnic and social groups , for all of Germany 's ills (Hitler , 1939

It was not long before the Nazi party began passing legislature to begin the mass evacuation of Jews from Germany . Under Hitler 's rule , the Nazi party became a powerful and feared war machine and the Jews were its main target

In 1933 , the Law for the Prevention of Hereditarily Diseased Offspring ' was passed . It established Genetic Health Courts ' which could mandate compulsory sterilization for anyone it considered suffering from a hereditary disease . For the Nazi 's , these were anyone : suffering from epilepsy , mental retardation , mental diss including schizophrenia , deafness , blindness , deformities and even alcoholism . Later...

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