Why Did Hitler Hate Jewish People? — Transcript
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- 0:00it is a commonly known fact that Adolf
- 0:02Hitler used Jewish people as a scapegoat
- 0:04to gain control in Germany and
- 0:06eventually become the chancellor he made
- 0:08it his mission to exterminate the Jews
- 0:10through the Holocaust which resulted in
- 0:12the deaths of millions of innocent
- 0:14people but what was the root cause of
- 0:16this hatred and how did it begin what
- 0:18causes someone to hate a group of people
- 0:20so much that they want to exterminate
- 0:22them from the face of the Earth hello
- 0:24and welcome back to Life's biggest
- 0:25questions I'm Charlotte do and today we
- 0:28are going to answer the question why did
- 0:30Hitler hate Jewish people Hitler did not
- 0:32invent the hatred of Jews many cultures
- 0:34and societies dating back to the
- 0:35beginning of civilization were both
- 0:37envious and angry at Jewish people
- 0:39Hitler grew up in Vienna and at the time
- 0:41the mayor of Vienna was a known
- 0:43anti-semitic anti-semitic literature at
- 0:45the time was stereotyping and portraying
- 0:47Jews in an evil light they were being
- 0:49represented as disloyal untrustworthy
- 0:51and money hungry an example of this is
- 0:53the Elders of Zion this document was
- 0:55claimed to be the Jewish plan for world
- 0:57domination and it was widely distributed
- 0:59h was heavily influenced by this
- 1:01document Adolf Hitler himself explained
- 1:03that he had no feelings toward Jews
- 1:05before he moved to Vienna in 1908 it is
- 1:07widely known that Hitler was rejected
- 1:09from the Vienna Academy of Fine Arts as
- 1:11documented in his book mine comp Hitler
- 1:13was convinced that the panel members who
- 1:15rejected his application were Jews
- 1:17another theory is that a Jewish doctor
- 1:19unsuccessfully treated his mother Clara
- 1:21when she had breast cancer Hitler loved
- 1:23two things in life his mother and the
- 1:25German Reich claraa died a painful death
- 1:27in 1907 Germany's loss of World War I
- 1:30was another big trigger Hitler was
- 1:31brought into the philosophy that Germany
- 1:33was stabbed in the back by the Jews
- 1:34during World War I Jewish people were
- 1:36extremely involved in the Socialist and
- 1:38communist movements that led to
- 1:39Revolutions in both Germany and Russia
- 1:41which were seen as weakening the war
- 1:43effort Hitler believed socialists were
- 1:44ruining Germany and bolism would be the
- 1:46downfall of any country the social
- 1:48Democrats agreed to an Armistice that
- 1:50was later treated as a surrender the
- 1:52social Democrats consisted of many
- 1:54Jewish people instead of blaming the
- 1:55German Army it was easier to blame the
- 1:57Jews for Germany's catastrophic defeat
- 1:59and the collapse of the monarchy after
- 2:01the first world war came the Great
- 2:02Depression Hitler also blamed the
- 2:04depression in Germany on the Jews
- 2:06following the first world war and the
- 2:07Treaty of Versailles Germany and the
- 2:09rest of the world experienced a period
- 2:11of severe economic depression Jews in
- 2:13Germany were not as affected by the
- 2:14Great Depression because they held a lot
- 2:16of control over the economy at the time
- 2:18Jews controlled businesses merchandise
- 2:20and expert Fields so when the Depression
- 2:22hit they were much better off than the
- 2:24average German according to Hitler this
- 2:26was a huge Injustice so basically he
- 2:28blamed them out of good oldfashioned
- 2:30jealousy Hitler was of course also
- 2:32inspired by the theory that Jews along
- 2:34with Gypsies and slaves were
- 2:35biologically inferior to Aryans the
- 2:37master race Aryans were regarded by
- 2:39Hitler as a pure race identified by pale
- 2:42skin blonde hair blue eyes and a tall
- 2:44slim physique Hitler believed that the
- 2:46Aryan race was the highest
- 2:47representative of mankind the Holocaust
- 2:50was Hitler's way of purifying the world
- 2:51of inferior races so inferior that he
- 2:54did not consider them to be human in
- 2:561920 Hitler announced to the Nazi party
- 2:58none but those of German black blood may
- 3:00be members of the nation no Jew
- 3:02therefore may be a member of the nation
- 3:04the final solution was a Nazi plan to
- 3:06exterminate the Jews during World War 2
- 3:08so that the arens were the only race
- 3:09left there is another theory and that
- 3:11theory is that Hitler did not hate
- 3:13Jewish people at all there is a strong
- 3:15possibility that Hitler used the
- 3:17anti-Semitism that was already present
- 3:18in Europe and exploited it as a
- 3:20political tool he could have used the
- 3:22Public's feelings of distrust towards
- 3:24Jewish people in order to gain their
- 3:25support he blamed them for all the
- 3:27hardships the Germans went through as
- 3:29history demonstrates Ates a scape cat is
- 3:31a powerful political tool as explained
- 3:33in this video Hitler had many reasons
- 3:35for hating Jewish people but then so did
- 3:37much of the world and that hatred goes
- 3:39back centuries the reason for that well
- 3:41that sounds like the topic for another
- 3:42life's biggest questions I'm Charlotte
- 3:44do for lbq don't forget to like this
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