Hitler’s Peculiar Eyes
Hitler’s hatred towards the Jews was so powerful he wanted them completely eliminated. Adolf Hitler became Germany’s ruler in 1933. With the rise of Germany’s new leader also came an event known as the Holocaust. There are many theories as to why Hitler viewed the Jewish community differently. Adolf Hitler viewed the Jewish people in such a way that could be considered inhuman. Somehow he felt justified to think of people the way he did.
Under Hitler’s eyes Jewish people where very peculiar. He didn’t think of them as Aryans which, he considered the pure and master race of Germany. To be classified as Aryans you had to consist of blond hair, blue eyes, pale white skin, and you had to come from Nordic descent. Germany’s
When rising to power Hitler sees the Jewish people as the enemy race. As a result, he plans to exterminate every last one of them. Wicked men of his Nazi army captured Jews, then changed them profoundly; they took away
With the promises of honor and prosperity, Germany unknowingly granted Adolf Hitler the power to implement his plans into fruition. As such he began his tyrannical rule over Germany resulting in a mass genocide known as the Holocaust. During this time period, Hitler and his Nazi party attempted to eradicate the Jewish population within Europe and spread their anti-Semitic policies throughout the world. At the end of World War II, only a certain amounts of people were able to survive the Holocaust. However, the survivors are still haunted by the events that occurred to them.
The Holocaust was a period of discrimination, immoral actions, and devastation. The Holocaust initiated January 30th, 1933 and lasted until May 8, 1945. Adolf Hitler came into power of Nazis selection in 1903. He specifically targeted the Jewish people because of their dissimilarities in faith and appreance. While Hitler possessed his dictatorship, six million Jewish lives were taken by hard work, lack of food, and death in medical experiments.
In 1933, Adolf Hitler set out that the world would be a better place if there was no Jews. (Military Leader, Dictator:) He made it seem like the Jews were seen as a threat towards the German race. All of this started when the German community was defeated in WW1, and Hitler blamed the Jews. ( Military Leader, Dictator:) The Germans believed it, so Hitler started prisoning the Jews one by one, including children.
According to Hitler and the Nazi party, the Jewish community weren’t people and they were just objects. Hitler found the Jewish community unpleasant and a disgrace to the world.
Hatred of the Jewish population was spreading from France, and it began to infiltrate Germany. Hitler utilized this by aligning himself with the Catholic Church and creating a negative image of the Jewish population. Christianity was beginning to break away from Judaism, so Hitler began to portray the Jews as the killers of Jesus. Hitler also blamed the loss of World War I on the Jews, as well as blamed them for the economic turmoil that Germany was facing after the Treaty of Versailles. He labeled Jews as money hungry individuals since they were able to have well-paying occupations that were outside of Christian law.
After losing World War One in 1918, the Germans were in an utter state of disillusionment and despair. Due to the Treaty of Versailles, they lost vast amounts of territory, became demilitarized, and had to pay millions in restitutions. A bleak time such as this was the perfect opportunity for fascist dictator, Adolf Hitler, to rise to power. Hitler managed to brainwash millions of vulnerable Germans into believing that the Jews were responsible for all the misfortune that had befallen them. Countless images and videos of Nazi propaganda circulated through Europe, depicting Jews as evil vermin that must be exterminated in order for the “master race” to reign supreme.
He believed that the Jewish people killed Jesus. A lot of Christians would said that Hitler was not a Christian because he did not follow the New Testament writings nor did he follow Jesus. Cory Booker said, “It is okay not to like someone, but it is never okay to try and degrade, humiliate, or dehumanize them”, Hitler dehumanized Jewish and other people because they did not have the characteristics that he was looking for (Booker). According to the first clause of the Declaration of Independence it says, “We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal”, there are no different laws for different classes everyone will follow the law no matter who that person is. Some believe dehumanization is done as revenge for a wrong done.
Hitler was the ruthless leader of the Holocaust. He had plans of how he was going to overthrow the country and,” By 1934 Hitler was in absolute control of Germany, and his campaign against the Jews in full swing,” but the people were unaware of his intentions (“Holocaust”). He intended to kill Jewish people because himself and the Nazis believed that,”... the Jews were responsible for huge events like losing World War One and the economic crisis,” which happens to be incorrect but so many people believed them (“Why”). Because of his reasons, he wanted to imprison Jewish people.
When rising to power, Hitler sees the Jewish people as the enemy race. As a result, he plans to exterminate every last one of them. Wicked men of his Nazi army captured Jews, then changed them profoundly; they took
(Source 4) Hitler wanted to exterminate all of the ‘inferior races’ so that Germany could take over Europe and house the ‘perfect race’. The Jews were looked down on as they were inferior to the Germans that they lived amongst and therefore were ridiculed and made vulnerable to persecution. Hitler was afraid that the Jews would summon the other ‘inferior’ races to rise up against the Nazi regime as they were believed to hold much of the world’s finances and mass media. (Source 4) They believed that killing the Jews
Dehumanization of Jews Anti-Semitism has existed in Europe for many centuries but Hitler enhanced anti-Semitism during his dictatorship of Germany. Anti-Semitism, a form of Jewish racism came into action with Hitler’s support of nationalism in Germany. It changed the way the Germans saw Jewish people. The theme “how we see things” demonstrates itself through the contrast of perspective between the Nazis and their Jewish captives. Henry David Thoreau quotes that “the question is not what you look at, but what you see” which explains that different people see different things from the image of the same thing.
Unfortunately for Jewish people in Europe, they were the target of oppression for Hitler. Society stereotypes the Jewish people just as other ethnicities. Stereotypes seem to be a common way for people to view others. Germany needed a scapegoat for all the struggles they were facing and Hitler used stereotypes to give the German people a scapegoat.
Since Jewish people were seen as inferior and German people were seen as the master race, Hitler used this to eliminate any racial impurities. This was one of the reasons the Nazi Party and