Explain why the Nazis persecuted the Jews, and considering the minority, explain how the Nazis persecuted the Jews.

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Explain why the Nazis persecuted the Jews, and considering the minority, explain how the Nazis persecuted the Jews

The persecution of the Jews in Nazi Germany is concerned with the holocaust, a word that today has a certain aura about it. And rightly so, in that period, where Hitler was at the height of his control, 5 – 6 million Jews were killed while in captivity, subjected to torture and starvation, in German death camps. The word Holocaust comes from the Greek: holo meaning “whole” and caustos meaning “burned”, in a way this word is quite fitting to the whole situation, Hitler’s singular desire to literally burn the whole of the Jewish race off the face of the planet.  In this essay I shall now discuss firstly why the Germans persecuted the Jews and then how this developed.

Persecution of the Jewish race and anti-Semitism was not a new concept. Many people still harboured ill feelings towards the race believing that they were solely to blame for the death of Jesus Christ.  Although at the time I cannot see this been the first thing on the mind.  However there was an historic racism towards the Jews and many already felt that they were not German but foreigner coming to steal there had earned wealth off them.  For this many felt that Jews should be got rid of, not necessarily killed but pushed out of the country.  

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There was also a certain amount of jealousy among the Germans directed at the Jews.  Whilst the rest of the country had been suffering in the depression the Jews did not do nearly as badly.  And this was in what seemed to man as there own community, witch spoke its own language, Yiddish, and had there own political party.

Hitler used the Jews as scapegoats, at of the depression the time Germans were feeling very sorry for themselves and were looking to blame any one else but them selves.  Hitler said that the Jews and communists were ...

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