Why Hitler killed Jews?

Anti Semitist feelings were not just restricted to Adolf Hitler but the entire Europe. Hitler took it one step further by applying a German thoroughness to it by trying to eliminate the entire Jewish race. Various reasons have been cited to explain roots of Hitler’s hatred against the Jews:

·         Personal

§  In 1939 Hitler personally permitted Dr. Bloch, a Jewish physician to emigrate from Austria. Dr. Bloc was the gentle physician who provided intensive care for of his ailing mother. However, her mother died of breast cancer at the age of 47 under his care. But this does not seem to be a valid reason since, on several occasions Hitler expressed his humble gratitude to Dr. Bloch. Not only did Hitler thank the Jewish doctor who treated his mother, apparently he allowed the doctor to escape Nazi Germany without repercussions.

§  Hitler lived in Vienna from 1907 to 1913 and those were the most difficult years of his life. Hitler was trying to become an artist or to make himself a name in field of arts. He was twice rejected from the Vienna Academy of Fine Art dominated by Jews. He claimed that the professors that rejected him were Jewish.

·         Conspiracy theory

§  Hitler saw the Jews as the 'biological root' of Bolshevism. In many hard-line right wing circles there was talk about a supposed 'Judeo-Bolshevist conspiracy'. Germany, according to this theory had not lost the 1st world war on the battlefield but had been brought down by liberal, socialist and Communist subversives on the home front. Jews in prewar Germany were very much overrepresented in the top echelons of German society. In other words it was claimed that the Jews had caused Germany's defeat in World War 1. He later went on to compare Jews with homosexuals allegedly undermining their manliness.

·         Jealousy

§  Some Jews were successful and held "visible" positions in Austria and Germany in the 1920s and 1930s. In the Great Depression. Germany was hit the hardest by the worldwide economic depression, and successful Jews were envied. Some Germans believed that "Jewish bankers" were responsible for the Treaty of Versailles and had plunged the world into a war and the Depression for their business profits. Jews became a scapegoat for Germany's economic problems.

·         Social Darwinism

§  Hitler was also introduced to the Social Darwinism subscribing to the idea that nations, people, cultures and individuals are subject to the same laws of natural selection as plants and animals. Life is a perpetual struggle, between individuals and nations for existence, with the survival of the stronger and more brutal and the elimination of the weaker and less fit.

·         Power game

§  Another key element of a dictatorship is fear, and a visible scapegoat experiencing the wrath of the state is a good way to keep people from stepping out of line. Inciting hatred of the Jews was the means to an end. Hitler used hatred of the Jews to unify the German people and create a new German empire. Nothing unites a people more than when they believe they are constantly under attack and fighting a common enemy. The Jews were convenient enemies .

·         Literary Influence

§   Hitler and many Nazis were influenced by the notorious anti-Semitic book called "Protocols of the Learned Elders of Zion."