Why did Adolf Hitler want to kill all Jews?
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Just because he was a rascal
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Adolf Hitler (help·info) (April 20, 1889 – April 30, 1945) was Chancellor of Germany from 1933, and "Führer" (leader) of Germany from 1934 until his death. He was leader of the National Socialist German Workers Party (Nationalsozialistische Deutsche Arbeiterpartei or NSDAP), better known as the Nazi Party.\n\nHitler gained power in a Germany facing crisis after World War I. Using propaganda and charismatic oratory, he was able to appeal to the economic need of the lower and middle classes, while sounding resonant chords of nationalism, anti-Semitism and anti-communism. With the establishment of a restructured economy, a rearmed military, and a totalitarian fascist dictatorship, Hitler pursued an aggressive foreign policy with the intention of expanding German Lebensraum ("living space"), which triggered World War II when Germany invaded Poland. At the height of its power, Nazi Germany occupied most of Europe, but it and the Axis Powers were eventually defeated by the Allies. By then, Hitler's racial policies had culminated in a genocide of approximately eleven million people, including about six million Jews, in what is now known as the Holocaust.\n\nIn the final days of the war, Hitler committed suicide in his underground bunker in Berlin with his newlywed wife, Eva Braun.
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Adolf Hitler - Nazi dictator of Germany (1933-45), planned and started World War 2, committed suicide at the end of the war. \nGeneral Hideki Tojo - Prime minister of Japan (October 1941 - July 1944). With a long militarist tradition, Japan became extremely militarist and aggressive in the 1930s and was practically governed by military leaders. Tojo, an aggressive army General, became minister of war in July 1941 and prime minister in October 1941. After a short attempt to improve relations with the US failed, he ordered to go to war and attack Pearl Harbor in December 1941. He gradually took more ministerial roles, and in Feb. 1944 also made himself the commander in chief, like Adolf Hitler did. When he realized that Japan was going to lose the war he resigned. The military continued to control Japan until the end of World War 2, which came when the Emperor Hirohito which was until then passive, ordered to surrender in order to prevent further inevitable destruction of Japan. After the war Tojo was executed for his responsibility to Japan's war crimes. \nBenito Mussolini, was the prime minister of Italy (1922-1943). A former journalist, he went to politics and formed the Fascist party, whose ideology, Fascism, called for a one-party state, total obedience, patriotic nationalism, and aggressive militarism. The ideology and its implementation in Mussolini's Italy influenced Adolf Hitler's own ideology, Nazism, which was a combination of Fascism with extreme racism. Initially Mussolini led a right-wing coalition, but later Italy became a one party state. His treatment of unemployment made Mussolini popular, but the military aggression of Fascism led to its failure. Mussolini was eager to demonstrate the "strength" of his regime by invading weaker neighbors. In 1935 he invaded and occupied the peaceful Ethiopia from Italy's nearby colony in East Africa. In 1936, the two Fascist dictators, Hitler and Mussolini, signed an alliance. In 1939 he invaded and occupied his small neighbor Albania, and Mussolini then enhanced his alliance with Hitler to a full military alliance. Mussolini knew that his military was not very effective, but when the Germans defeated the French and British forces in mid 1940 he thought it was safe enough for him to attack Britain and the collapsing France too and declared war, and in October 1940 he also invaded Greece, and was repelled. Mussolini had a million soldiers in Libya, and he sent them to attack the small British force in Egypt. The Italian Navy and Air Force attacked British ports and shipping in the Mediterranean, from Gibraltar in the West to Haifa (Israel) in the East. Despite its numerical strength and the fact that British forces in the Mediterranean were greatly outnumbered and very stretched, the Italian military could not defeat them anywhere, and was severely beaten by the British, and simply had to call for the help of the much more capable Germans. Even with German help, the British forces only lost their positions in Greece and kept fighting fiercely from their island bases in Malta, Gibraltar, and in North Africa. Mussolini's Italy became a German puppet, and even sent troops to participate in Germany's invasion of Russia. Eventually, British and American forces eliminated the Italian and German forces in North Africa and followed in July 1943 with an invasion of Sicily in South Italy. It was clear that Italy was losing the war, so several days after the invasion Mussolini was replaced and arrested in a remote mountain castle. Hitler sent commandos to rescue his friend from captivity. In April 1945, when German defence in North Italy collapsed, Mussolini was captured by Italian partisans and executed . \nThe defenders\nWinston Churchill kept warning of the Nazi danger in pre-war years. He was elected prime minister of Great Britain after the total collapse of the appeasement policy of his predecessor Neville Chamberlain. Chamberlain failed to understa
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Because at that time, Jews were the popular scapegoat for any problems, so it was natural to blame them. Even now, some fanatics out there still think that Jews control the entire world and are plotting to kill everyone. For these people, a war against Jews is good, and necessary. And Hitler used these people.
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Primarily because it was popular to do so at the time.  Hitler believed in a conspiracy theory that said the Jews wanted to take over the world.   Hitler wrote (well he dictated it and it was heavily edited) called Mein Kampf - My Struggle in English, that does shed some light on his anti-Semitism (hating of the Jewish people)  I've included some resources below that may help you in your research. \n\n(I am not Jewish, but in an effort to be unbiased I must disclose that I do have Jewish relatives. The links I provided I have found personally useful and I find their coverage of the Holocaust to almost universally accepted.  There are however small groups which feel that the Holocaust never happened.  You will have to draw your own conclusions.  I was not alive then but the historical records and primary source material I have consulted have convinced me of the horrible reality of the Holocaust or Shoah.)
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In 1936, Jews were banned from all professional jobs, effectively preventing them exerting any influence in education, politics, higher education and industry. On 15 November of 1938, Jewish children were banned from going to normal schools. By April 1939, nearly all Jewish companies had either collapsed under financial pressure and declining profits, or had been forced to sell out to the Nazi-German government as part of the "Aryanization" policy inaugurated in 1937.\n\nAs the war started, large massacres of Jews took place, and, by December 1941, Hitler decided to completely exterminate European Jews. In January 1942, during the Wannsee conference, several Nazi leaders discussed the details of the "Final Solution of the Jewish question" (Endlösung der Judenfrage). Dr. Josef Bühler urged Reinhard Heydrich to proceed with the Final Solution in the General Government. They began to systematically deport Jewish populations from the ghettos and all occupied territories to the seven camps designated as Vernichtungslager, or extermination camps: Auschwitz, Belzec, Chelmno, Majdanek, Maly Trostenets, Sobibór and Treblinka II. Sebastian Haffner published the analysis in 1978 that Hitler from December 1941 accepted the failure of his goal to dominate Europe forever on his declaration of war against the United States, but that his withdrawal and apparent calm thereafter was sustained by the achievement of his second goal—the extermination of the Jews.\n------------------------------------------------------------\nJews were the main victims. One could say their role was to be rounded up like cattle to concentration camps or death camps.\nAdded:\nAs for communities, they were started in other countries where the Jews fled to. After the second world war.
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Could it be something for example like "Hitler had a Xenophobia towards all Jews"
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In the concentration camps there were also homosexuals and handicapped people. He wanted to get rid of the 'weaker' people, create a superior race of people who were 'pure' and 'strong'. He believed the Jews had defects in their genes that caused them to be diseased and sickly. I believe Gypsy were another race he wanted to get rid of because they were often rumored to carry diseases from towns to towns in their nomadic wanderings. Also remember that Mein Kumpf was just saying the things that he wanted people to know.... \n\nHitler's goal was to create a 'master race'.
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Hitler was not a Jew. And in 1943 the Nazi's were isolateg Jews in ares of their cities called "ghettos" and periodically they would take some or all of them to concentration camps where they were starved, beaten, etc. The were also used as slave labor and many, many of them were executed and dumped into mass graves. The estimate is that the Nazi's killed 5,860,000 jews from 1938 to 1945.
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The Nazi's wanted to be the dominent race and rule the world. The Jew's were an easy target. The Nazi's viewed them as inferior and were determined to wipe them out. It didn't work. There were a lot Jew's killed but the Nazi's died out. The Jew's are still here.
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from what i see on the news, Islam, because they want to kill all the jews and convert everyone to islam, and if they don't convert they die, pretty violent huh?
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some kill because they have perverted the Word by misinterpereting it.  in the old testament, David, for example, would kill to rid the world of evil that had become interwoven into he fabrics of a certain race.  He would kill to purge.  this is a very serious calling, however, and probably will not be used in today's context.  only God Himself can ask a man to do this, and that man would be given the means to do so without breaking any of God's laws. (remember, the commandment said not to "murder", not "kill")  God will rarely tell one of His children to kill under the new covenant; He would rather see them saved, since now it is possible for all men to come to Him.  \n\nreally, for the most part, today people kill in the name of God because they have misread or misinterpereted the Scripture, and are extremists anway.  (ie. hitler)\nvery perverse people reside in this world.
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Germany's desire for revenge... or for a more complete explanation: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WWII
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They were desperate for relief and Hitler turned a poor war beaten country into a super power.\n\nThe only thing he did wrong was killing millions of jews, pagans atheist, communist and homosexuals.\n\nWait isn't that what most christians want??
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Without question.  Assassination of Hitler would have been a defensive tactic, not an aggressive one.  Hitler was the aggressor.  \n\nThe choice back then was either to kill Hitler, or to kill hundreds of thousands in a world war.  Since we didn't kill Hitler, we had to kill hundreds of thousands.  \n\nWhich would be more moral: killing one man, or refraining from killing one man and having to kill a million other men (more innocent men) as a consequence?
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The Nazi government under Adolf Hitler, for obvious reasons, such as the systematic extermination of the Jews and other races.
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Hilter didn't just hate the Jews and black people, he hated Catholics, German's who helped people flee from his wrath, people with disablities (even if you walked with a limp). If you even had a sixteenth of Jewish blood in you, you were consider Jewish. According to the Holucust Mesume in Washington DC, he wanted to create the ulimate race of Germans (blonde hair and blue eyes). Hilter was an interesting chararter. A bad apple that's for sure. He was brought to power by promising the people of Germany food and bring the country's economy back up. After WWI German suffered greatly from debts and such. So of course they would listen to the devil himself if he made such promises. I hope this answers your question.