I have heard conflicting answers to this question. If possible, i woukd love to read Hitlers own words, or from contemporary Germans, why they hated the Jewish people.
I understand this type of thread can be controversial and volatile. I ask that we can keep respectful and kind. While controversial, this is also a legitimate historical question wirth pondering. Especially because it is rarely discussed from Hitlers point of view. Right or wrong, i want to know what HE felt about tge Hewish people. I would greatly appreciate any help, as it is difficult to find it in the dozens of speeches he made..
My personal note is that, while i do notice the amount of Jewish people in positions of power, my opinion of them is very high. They are hard working, family oriented people that treat me in my business very well! In fact i wish Christians learned a bit from them!
Pardon all my disclaimers. I just want some good clean historical information. Any you provide woukd be much appreciated!
The Weimar Republic led to the Rise of Anti-Semitism. Germany was still suffering greatly from The Treaty of Versailles imposed on Germans for WWI reparations. While the working class starved, the elite prospered.
"Jews were numerous in the republic institutions, they who had found new visibility in a regime that had given them access to positions that were previously inaccessible to them. The Weimar Republic started to be called the Judenrepublik – the ‘Jewish Republic’ – and everything that was going wrong was blamed on it." -The Weimar Republic and the Rise of Anti-Semitism (International Holocaust Remembrance Day)
Dr Karl Wiehe wrote:
In 1931, over 60 percent of German films were produced by Jews and 82 percent of the film scripts were written by Jewish writers, though Jews made up less than 1 percent of the German population (0.9o%). A quick look at the names of directors, producers, stage managers, actors, script writers and critics, “revealed everywhere an overwhelming preponderance of Jews.”
A cursory survey of the film titles, Wiehe tells us, shows us that the Jews had only one thing on the brain: sex. Here are some typical titles: “Moral und Sinnlichkeit” (Morals and Sensuality); “Was kostet Liebe?” (What is the Price of Love); “Wenn ein Weib den Weg verliert” (When a Woman loses her Way); “Prostitution” (Prostitution); “Sündige Mutter” (Sinful Mama); “Das Buch des Lasters” (The Book of Vices).
“The sensational titles correspond to the sleazy contents,” Wiehe complains. “All wallow in filth and display with cynical frankness the vilest scenes of sexual perversion.”
British historian Sir Arthur Bryant describes throngs of child prostitutes outside the doors of the great Berlin hotels and restaurants. He adds: “Most of them—the night clubs and vice resorts—were owned and managed by Jews. And it was the Jews among the promoters of this trade who were remembered in after years.”
Klaus Mann wrote how he saw 10-year-old children turned tricks in the railway stations. A group of 14-year-old Russian girls, refugees from the Red Terror in Stalin’s Communist slaughter house, managed to make a lucrative living in Berlin as dominatrices. Little girls were freely available for sex not only in child brothels and pharmacies but could be ordered by telephone and delivered to clients by taxi, like takeaway meals.
Nothing was taboo. Homosexualty, transgenders, bestiality, necrophilia, pedophilia and incest were the subject of literature disguised as science. (These books would later be piled up and burned.)
Dr Manfred Reifer, in the German Jewish magazine Czernowitzer Allegemeine Zeitung, September 1933
"Whilst large sections of the German nation were struggling for the preservation of their race, we Jews filled the streets of Germany with our vociferations. We supplied the press with articles on the subject of its Christmas and Easter and administered to its religious beliefs in the manner we considered suitable. We ridiculed the highest ideals of the German nation and profaned the matters which it holds sacred.”
In the same month those words were written, September 1933, Adolf Hitler removed every single Jew from positions of influence in the mass media: from the fields of literature, art, music, journalism, the cinema, and popular entertainment in general. The influence that the Jews had exerted on the German psyche was to be regarded henceforth, rightly or wrongly, as pernicious. And Kulturbolschewismus, or “Bolshevik culture”, a derogatory term for Jewish culture itself, became synonymous with moral anarchy and sexual decadence.
Germans blamed the Jewish people for Berlin's descent into sexual depravity and the erosion of their society. And by the time Hitler arrived on the scene, the German people were eager for a purge.