Why did the Nazi's hate the Jews?Is it because they killed Christ?
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No. It was more of a racial scapegoating. There was envy because the Jews prospered. There was antisemitism in Germany before the Nazis but Nazis gained and maintained their power by blaming the Jews and others for a lot of things.
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I always wondered that to.  Why did the Germans hate them so much?
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I don't know the real scientific answer, but I think people hate any people that survive any persecution.  They think it's sneaky, but if you want to survive, you work hard to do so!  People make Jewish people the scapegoat for all their problems.  Many Christians enjoy blaming Jews for the death of Christ, but Christ was a Jew himself - so it's quite illogical.  \n\nThey've survived the Spanish Inquisition, the Holocaust, and many years of being thrown out of various countries to this day for the simple reason that they are usually a small population and a minority religion within the region.  They keep their spirit and religion in their daily life.  They stick to their values from generation to generation.  I admire their continuity.
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they are the extremists, trust me.  Most christians can accept and will respect Judaism as a religion.  However, in the bible, it says that A Jewish man betrayed Jesus.  Thats why *some* christians *hate* Judaism.
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I have had a bad relationship with christians\n\nI was born Jewish\n\nOn the first day of school i ever had, a classmate told me i killed god.  I remember crying and running to my mother.  I didnt blame christianity for that though, i though the kid was just mean....\n\nbut when i got older i started seeing christians different.  I saw them as the embodiment of hate.  I mean, the whole basis of their bible is that anyone who isn't christian is a sinner and must be converted.  \n\nThroughout history, Christians have murdered millions in the name of Jesus:\n\n1. The slaughter of those who believed in roman gods when christianity took over rome.\n2. The massacre of jews in the dark ages\n3. The torture of jews in the inquisition\n4.  The brutal murders of jews and muslims in the crusades\n5.  The murder of 6 million jews in the holocaust\n6.  The bombing of abortions clinics.\n7.  the murder of homosexuals\n\nI am now an atheist and am very opposed to christian extremism
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Who knows what some individual people of any faith may occasionally do?\n\nIt is only right to place the Jews first on the list of the Nazis' victims.\n\nHowever millions of Catholics and other Christians were also killed. No one knows exactly how many. I've seen claims of up to 42,000,000 but I could not find documentation for this number.\n\nOne example, over 6 million Poles (mostly Catholic) perished during WWII. That was 22% of the population of the country.\n\nAlso remember most the the allied military dead were Christians.\n\nWith love in Christ.
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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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How could he like Christianity - a religion that glorified the life of a Jew - Jesus.  But he was against anything that did not support his National Socialism.  He didn't kill Jews - however, just because of their religion - he saw Jews as more than just a religion - but also a race of beings.
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It was when Hitler was a dictator in Germany during World War II, and he took it in to his own hands to wipe out the society of what he felt was inferior beings, messing up and ruining the Aryan race. He was a huge racist and in other words, commiting genocide on millions on innocent Jewish civilians. The Holocaust was the event where the millions of Jewish people were being put through torture, being murdered, and were dying in concentration camps because he did not like them. He was actually Jewish also, but he made this like one of the earliest forms out a hate crime, but in such a more degrading, sick twisting way. He was insecure of his artist abilities and it was said because he got kicked of art school, he decided to hate Jewish people from them on. Holocaust one of the worst events that happened in our history other than slavery, and the land stealing of Native Americans.
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My husband is German and he does not hate Jews or any one Group (as a whole) for that matter. Hate is a sign of weakness in a person, shows their too lazy to find the good.
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It was the official position of the Church of Rome for some time that the Jews crucified Christ, but under Vatican 2 that paradigm was removed.  Christ was killed by Rome, by the Roman Governor of Judea.  In part because he was a sort of rebel, and going against the grain.  Rome had essentially a policy for putting down anyone that represented a threat to their rule.  The Sadducces (the Hebrew ruling class) and Phraises (essentially the middle class) were not unhappy to see Him go as he often clashed with their values too.  Advocating for change and better treatment of the poor and disenfranchised typically doesn't win you many friends with the establishment!\n   You will need to do a lot more research, I've included a site below to help get you started, good luck with your project and Shalom. :)
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Now can anyone seem to think of a reason why someone named ""shkwajid"" would want to stir people up against the Jews?\n\nThe Jews did not kill Jesus, even according to the Christian's New Testament itself.\n\nIn Matthew 27:2, Jesus had to be given over to the authorities, Rome, to be tried by the Governor of Rome, Pontius Pilate. 64 years before Jesus was born, the Jews had lost the land of Israel to Roman rule. The Jews had no power, no authority, to put anyone to death. Jesus was crucified. The Jewish way to give the death penalty was through stoning, as everyone knows. Crucifixion was a Roman form of execution, and they reserved it only for those who were seen as trying to overthrow the Roman government.\n\nAccording to Matthew 27:37, the sign placed by the Romans over Jesus's head read, "Jesus Christ King of the Jews." The text of Matthew in 27:37 calls this sign, "the accusation." In other words, the crime for which Jesus was crucified was for being, or having the pretense to be, the king of the Jews, INSTEAD of the Roman emperor, and this is according to the Christian's own New Testament! (see also Matthew 27:27-29)\n\nSo why does the Christian New Testament make it appear that the Jews wanted Jesus dead? Simply because by the time that the New Testament stories about Jesus (the Gospels) were being written, from 60 C.E. onward, the Jews were in open rebellion against Rome. The Early Christians did not want to be identified with the Jews, and they did not want Rome to think that Christians worshipped a man who was crucified by the Romans. So they wrote their New Testament so as to absolve the Romans from the responsibility of putting Jesus to death. This went so far as to put words in the mouth of "the Jews," that said "the Jews" accepted responsibility for Jesus's death, and that the guilt for it would be on their childrens' heads forever! (Matthew 27:25).\n\nOf course, this will not stop believing Christians from taking the New Testament at its word, and continuing to blame the Jews for Jesus's death.\n\nBUT, how then can we Jews respond to such a question, "Did the Jews kill Jesus?"\n\nThe very question itself makes us respond with our own collection of questions:\n\nWho are "the Jews" referred to in the question? Are they all Jews forever and ever? This would mean that if the people outside of the Huntsville, Texas, prison who cried FOR the death of Karla Faye Tucker (convicted of murdering her own kids i believe),were of Scottish origins, for example, then from now on all Scottish peoples, regardless of where they were at the time she was given the death penalty are guilty, forever, for her death?Remember that the people outside of the prison were not the ones, and could not have been the ones, who actually injected her with the fatal poisons. As a matter of fact, the vast majority of Jews in the world at the time of Jesus did not live in Israel, and would not have heard about any event taking place there for months after the event. News traveled so much slower then.\n\nLets pretend that "the Jews" back then really did kill Jesus (which they did not!). Since when are the children responsible, or culpable, for the sins of their parents? This very idea is UnBiblical! In Deuteronomy 24:16 it specifically states, "The fathers shall not be put to death for the children, neither shall the children be put to death for the fathers: every man shall be put to death for his own sin." Furthermore, in Ezekiel 18:20 it states, "The soul that sinneth, it shall die. The son shall not bear the iniquity of the father, neither shall the father bear the iniquity of the son: the righteousness of the righteous shall be upon him, and the wickedness of the wicked shall be upon him." So the very idea that if Jews killed Jesus, which they did not, then the Jewish People forever is responsible for that sin is b
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Hitler did not all of a sudden say, 'Hey, lets band everyone together by hating Jews.' The hatred of Jews in Europe goes all the way back to the time it became Christian. Passages in the Christian's New Testament paint "The Jews" as being the children of the devil, hypocritical, and interested only in money rather than in Gd. \n\nWho wrote the following???\n\n"""But since I learned that those miserable and accursed people do not cease to lure to themselves even us, that is, the Christians, I have published this little book, so that I might be found among those who opposed such poisonous activities of the Jews and who warned the Christians to be on their guard against them....Now, in order to strengthen our faith, we want to deal with a few crass follies of the Jews in their belief and their exegesis of the Scriptures, since they so maliciously revile our faith. If this should move any Jew to reform and repent, so much the better. We are now not talking with the Jews but about the Jews and their dealings, so that our Germans, too, might be informed....Our Lord also calls them a "brood of vipers"; furthermore, in John' 3:39 he states: "If you were Abraham's children would do what Abraham did.... You are of your father the devil." It was intolerable to them to hear that they were not Abraham's but the devil's children, nor can they bear to hear this today.... For they are a heavy burden, a plague, a pestilence, a sheer misfortune for our country. Proof for this is found in the fact that they have often been expelled forcibly from a country, far from being held captive in it....Therefore be on your guard against the Jews, knowing that wherever they have their synagogues, nothing is found but a den of devils in which sheer self-glory, conceit, lies, blasphemy, and defaming of God and men are practiced most maliciously and veheming his eyes on them.......but then eject them forever from this country. For, as we have heard, God's anger with them is so intense that gentle mercy will only tend to make them worse and worse, while sharp mercy will reform them but little. Therefore, in any case, away with them!"""\n\nIt was Martin Luther, one of the founders of the Protestant movement in Christianity! See:::\n\nhttp://www.fordham.edu/halsall/basis/1543-Luther-JewsandLies-full.html\n\nRemember, Germany was about one half Catholic and one half Lutheran, at the time of Hitler.\n\nCHURCH LAW and NAZI LAW \n1. Prohibition of intermarriage and sexual intercourse between Christians and Jews - Synod of Elvira, A.D. 306  \n1. Law for the Protection of German Blood and Honor - Sept. 15, I935 \n\n2. Jews and Christians not permitted to eat together - Synod of Elvira, 306  \n2. Jews barred from dining cars - Dec. 30, 1939 \n\n3. Jews not allowed to hold public office - Synod of Clermont, 535  \n3. Law for the Re-establishment of the Professional Civil Service - April 7, 1933 \n\n4. Jews not allowed to employ Christian servants or possess Christian slaves - 3rd Synod of Orleans, 538  \n4. Law for the Protection of German Blood and Honor - Sept. 15, 1935 \n\n5. Jews not permitted in the streets during Passion Week - 3rd Synod of Orleans, 538  \n5. Decree authorizing local authorities to bar Jews from streets on certain days - Dec. 3, 1938 \n\n6. Burning of the Talmud and other books - 12th Synod of Toledo, 691  \n6. Book burnings in Germany - 1933 \n\n7. Christians not permitted to patronize Jewish doctors - Trulanic Synod, 692  \n7. Decree of July 25, 1938 \n\n8. Christians not permitted to live in Jewish homes - Synod of Narbonne, 1050  \n8. Directive by Goring providing for concentration of Jews in houses - Dec. 28, I938 \n\n9. Jews obliged to pay taxes for support of the Church to the same extent as Christians - Synod of Gerona, 1078  \n9. Jews must pay special income tax in lieu of donations to the Party imposed on Nazis - Dec. 24, 1940 \n\n10. Jews not per
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He was Jewish, and for about three hundred years, his followers were also considered Jewish. Eventually, there was enough disagreement about whether you could be a good Jew and believe that the Messiah had come that the "Christians" were told they really weren't part of Judaism anymore. I am a Roman Catholic, but my religion starts with Judaism as its basis. I don't understand how anyone who follows Christ can be anti-Semitic, because Jesus and His family and His first followers were Jewish.
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I am taking a holocaust class in collage. The way I understand it is that Hilterand the germans blamed the Jews for everything. Losing the war, denying Jesus Christ, and they had the best shops and house that money could buy. He had that took from them. To help u out a little more go to www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org. If u have more questions e-mail at Njacobs7477@yahoo.com, I will be glad to help u.
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There are several Semitic peoples. However the term "anti-Semitic" is a term that specifically means a hatred of Jews.
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The Popes during the Dark Ages were driven to slaughter others because they were 'different'. They believed they were doing God's work so they felt no guilt or remorse. Hitler was driven to slaughter others because he was crazy. He also felt no guilt or remorse. The actions of those early Popes were equal to those of Hitler, their motives were also the same. Education, not Religion, is the answer to the intolerance people have toward each other. We must also remember that Hitler did not act alone, he had tens of thousands of helpers, all of whom were 'Christians'.