Why Did Hitler Target Jews & Communists?
When Adolf Hitler finally got to be the German leader, he started torturing and killing many groups of minorities in Germany, these groups includehomosexuals, gypsies, mentally disabled people, etc. But the two main groups that Hitler tortured were the communists and the Jews.
There are many theories about Hitler’s hate upon these two groups, as itseemed to be very strong. Among the theories there are people who say that he used them as scapegoats for his political purpose, some say he might have killed Jews and homosexuals in order to cover hisown Jew blood and his own homosexuality, it is even said that Hitler hated anyone that was not blonde-haired, blue-eyed because Hitler believed that’s the way the perfect race should be, along with manyother “requirements” such as strength and braveness (Kapner, 2012, ‘Did Hitler Have Reason To Hate The Jews?’).
In my own opinion, I agree with those who say that Hitler used these minorities asscapegoats for his political campaign. I think he just found a small group to blame about everything.
In case of the Jews, Jews were powerful and rich in that time, so Hitler found a “public enemy”for the worker class (the majority), which would make sense for them. The Idea of blaming the Jews worked because of their social position, blaming them, along with a persuasive idea such as: “Look atthe Jews, they’ve stole everything from us, that is the reason why they are rich and we are poor, that is why Germany is dying and they are growing, we must stop them” would be more than enough toreunite the whole town against them., additional to that, he got himself to be accepted by the majority by telling them that he was one of them, by saying “I’ve been where you are, I am one of you”.Although it is a fact that he could never prove that he didn’t have Jew blood, I don’t think he was a Jew, but I do think he also killed many of them to try to convince people and government that he...
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