Hello!
Now they will criticize mercilessly, but I will try to answer as simply as possible.
So, as VASILY ZHUKOV noted - the Nazis and their minions (not only Germans, but also many representatives of other nationalities).
1. the existence of any totalitarian regime is possible only in the presence of an enemy, and, therefore, the regime purposefully constructs the image of an enemy;
2. the Jew is the “universal enemy” - he is the founder of communism (social democracy) (K. Marx, ....), and the communists were the ideological enemies of the Nazis (why is a separate question). But a “Jew” is also a “plutocrat” (sorry for the terminology) - look at the nationality of the leading rich people of the interwar period. It was the universality of this image of the enemy that became the basis of animal anti-Semitism among some (not all) Nazi leaders.
Anti-Semitism is an ancient phenomenon (there was also pagan (there are some of its adherents in the Russian Federation even now), Roman,... Christian and everyday anti-Semitism has survived to this day), but only racial anti-Semitism, which appeared at the turn of the 19th - 20th centuries, was not expected the ability to move from the “THEY (enemies)” group to the “WE” group. The enemy is possible and, excuse me, necessary. (Look - L. Polyakov - History of anti-Semitism - http://jhistory.nfurman.com/shoa/poliakov00.htm) At the same time, no one is safe from anti-Semitism. For example, in Japan there are actually no Jews, but there are anti-Semitic publications (http://www.webcitation.org/66n9eZEIV)
Next - the Nazis created unique system education, in the center of which were holistic aspirations, and the boy in “short pants”, having gone through it from 1933 (34) to 1939, became a killing machine in which the principle of “madness of rationality” dominated (read more - H. Arendt “The Banality of Evil " http://www.e-reading.club/book.php?book=1004585 This is not the only work, but you can start with it).
National Socialism was popular not only in the Weimar Republic, but also in Great Britain, the USA, etc. Adolf Aloizovich Schicklgruber (Hitler) gained power not so much thanks to, but rather in spite of. Why? The “Great Depression” affected Germany to the greatest extent, moreover, the Nazi ideology (although I myself doubt the existence of a coherent system of it), which operated towards revanchism and “getting up from your knees” among normative (very) burghers and Bauers, was understandable and popular. Well, that’s who the enemy is - the Telmanists (communists) and capitalists who are pumping out the last of their strength and resources (see paragraph 2.).
By the way, for some regions it would be more correct to say that the Nazis created a system that was aimed at the total destruction of a separate ethnic group, and the inhabitants of the territories they occupied (unfortunately) became implementers or the silent majority (Bystanders - or - standing nearby).
Well, in conclusion - if there were no Jews, they should have been invented for the convenience of politicians for all times (Izreiel Zangwill).
Even those who didn’t like history lessons at school know about Hitler’s cruelty towards Jews and Gypsies. He did not hide his hatred, but openly demonstrated it in his public speaking, and monstrous actions. But how to explain such a brutal attitude? Why didn't Hitler like Jews and Gypsies?
There are many versions, some are more or less reliable, and some are more like fiction. Of course, the Fuhrer’s hatred was not limited only to these two peoples; among his targets for destruction were the Slavs, the disabled, and the insane. This article reveals the supposed reasons why Adolf Hitler did not like Jews. We will also talk about gypsies. But first it’s worth mentioning how Hitler treated Jews initially. It turns out that he did not always feel wild hatred towards them.
Hitler's first impression of the Jewish people
While still a teenager, Adolf met a Jewish youth. They studied together at school. He looked withdrawn and behaved suspiciously, so other students had little contact with him. Hitler also did not establish a close relationship with that Jew. Although at that time he believed that the difference between Germans and Jews lies only in the way they worship God.
Then one day on the street of Vienna he noticed a man who did not look like everyone else, he noticed a very long frock coat and curls called sidelocks. This impressed Hitler so much that he decided to learn more about the Jewish people. To this end, Adolf began to research the relevant literature with his characteristic Austrian-German meticulousness. The first anti-Semitic brochures fell into his hands. They openly voiced negativity towards this people. But oddly enough, this information rather aroused in him a feeling of compassion (although such a word hurts the ear if used in relation to the future tyrant). He could not understand why the whole world was burning with hatred of the Jews, and at first he believed that this was unfair. But he soon found reasons for himself. Among the more or less probable ones one can name the then influential position of the Jewish people and their belonging to the “inferior” race.
The Power of the Jewish People
In one of his public reports (1941), Hitler called them “almighty Jewry, which has declared war on the whole world.” This speech partly explains why Hitler did not like Jews. Photos and videos of his performances clearly demonstrate his fanatical belief in the truth of his beliefs.
Basically, he was irritated by the fact that it was the Jews who constituted the top of political and economic life. This was partly true. After Germany's collapse in World War I, the value of the German mark plummeted, and the average worker's wages became worthless overnight. It was a sin for enterprising Jews not to take advantage of the current situation. During these years, many of them made enormous capital. For example, the Jews completely controlled the iron and metal market. They also had an overwhelming influence on finance. Before the start of the Third Reich, almost all bankers were Jews. The spheres of commerce and culture almost entirely belonged to them. Almost everywhere they occupied exclusively leadership positions.
Of course, in fairness it must be said that not all Jews were fabulously rich, although this people as a whole owned enormous capital in those years. But even poor Jews did not want to get their hands dirty with hard physical labor. They increasingly liked moneylending, or at least sewing clothes. In the eyes of the Germans, it looked as if they, the Germans, had to bend their backs for the benefit of some nominees who, moreover, were also non-Christians. Moreover, at that time in Berlin itself there were more Jews than native residents. The ambitious Adolf Hitler was disgusted by such superiority of the “inferior” race.
Not surprisingly, all of the factors mentioned caused enormous social tension. It is this situation in the country that explains why Hitler did not like Jews. He acted as a kind of public mouthpiece. The dictator also openly called them the most stupid, irresponsible and unscrupulous people of all living on Earth.
Hitler's racial theory
In his work “My Struggle,” Hitler explained in detail his theory about the superiority of the Germans, whom he called the Aryans. Only they, according to his opinion, are worthy of being the rightful masters of the world. He describes the external characteristics of the Aryans: blue eyes, fair skin, tall or average height, and identifies idealism and dedication as character traits. Hitler didn't like Jews because they weren't like that.
The second racial group - the Slavs - should be destroyed in the majority, and the survivors deserve to be only slaves of the Aryans.
Secondary reasons why Hitler did not like Jews also apply. Having placed them on the lowest level relative to all other nations, the convinced anti-Semite sought and found indirect evidence of their baseness. Here are some of them.
Uncleanliness
This is another reason why Hitler did not like Jews. Prim Germans from childhood were accustomed to cleanliness and observed the rules of hygiene. Unlike them, Jews, according to Hitler's observations, did not particularly care about their appearance. Often it came from them bad smell. This increased Adolf Hitler's disgust towards them; he branded them as a dirty people, both physically and morally.
Low morale
As for morality, this is another reason why Hitler did not like Jews. The history of Jewish arranged marriages dates back to ancient times. In such families there was no place for sensual love, relationships were strained and cold, and spouses had to look for pleasure on the side. Hitler was especially indignant about the corruption of Aryan girls. He also argued that it was the Jews who were susceptible to vices who gave rise to the syphilis epidemic that was raging in Germany at that time. In addition, only Jewish names appeared among the publishers of pornographic literature. Hitler considered himself a hospital orderly whose goal was to cleanse Germany of evil spirits.
Resourcefulness and hypocrisy
The intellectual wealth of the Jews aroused not admiration, but envy of the Fuhrer. The sharp mind inherent in the Jews as a people in general and in each one in particular, more than once helped them get away with it. Everyone knows their ability to answer a question with a question and say only what their interlocutor wants to hear. Hitler saw such rather innocent qualities as a clear threat, and this also in some way explains, but in no way justifies, why Hitler did not like Jews.
Personal reasons
Rumor has it that Hitler actually disliked Jews after a Jewish prostitute infected him with syphilis in his youth. Then he had to undergo treatment for a long time.
Another version of why Hitler did not like Jews is that his mother died young because of an unscrupulous doctor, again a Jew.
He failed his art school exam because negative attitude teachers with Jewish roots came to him. But young Adolf’s original dream was to become an artist, and not the savior of humanity.
And the most discussed theory of hatred of Semites is this: Hitler himself was a quarter Jewish on his father’s side. Through the Holocaust he wanted to hide his shameful origins.
Each of these versions is based more on rumors than on hard facts, and does not have reliable written evidence.
Gypsies
So, if all the world’s crimes were attributed to the Jews, then what were the Gypsies guilty of? Why didn't Hitler like Jews and gypsies along with them? The reasons are almost the same. He classified the Gypsies as a “lower” race, although by their origin (from India) they are more Aryans, for that matter, than the Germans themselves. But still, Hitler considered them garbage that needed to be destroyed. It is no secret that gypsies lead a wandering lifestyle, are not engaged in physical labor, but more and more in songs, dances, theft and fortune telling. Consequently, they found no place in the society of the Third Reich. In addition, the same untidiness of the gypsies in relation to their hygiene played an evil role.
Results of Hate
Hitler began to implement his plans for the purity of Europe with his characteristic fanaticism. The monstrous numbers speak for themselves. The number of victims of the Roma genocide ranges from 200 thousand to one and a half million people. A third of the world's Jewish population lost their lives due to the Holocaust.
To summarize, Hitler came up with a common enemy for the German nation, who is to blame for everything, and if necessary, it would be possible to “hang all the dogs” on him. The sad history of these peoples shows what blind prejudice leads to.
Why did the Germans kill six million Jews? This question is difficult to answer. Some historians believe that the Nazis had been planning the extermination of Jews since they seized power in 1933. Other historians believe that the extermination of the Jews was the result of a specific historical context and therefore was not originally planned.
Background
In the early 1930s, during the Nazi rise to power, Germany experienced great economic and social difficulties. A country:
- had to pay huge compensation to the Allies as a result of defeat in the First World War;
- had to adhere to the Treaty of Versailles, according to which it could no longer have a large army and had to give up some territories;
- experienced severe inflation and economic instability;
- experienced high levels of unemployment.
Hitler used Jews as a scapegoat, blaming them for economic and social problems Germany. The Nazi Party promised to resolve these issues, and in 1932 received 37% of the votes in the elections.
The Nazis' rise to power
All Jews and non-Aryans were excluded from German society. They could no longer hold government jobs, own property, or run their own businesses. In 1935, the government passed the Nuremberg Laws, which stated that only Aryans could be German citizens. The Nazis believed that the "full-blooded" German was racially superior, and that the struggle for survival existed between the German race and those races considered inferior. They saw Jews, Gypsies, Sinti, black people and the disabled as serious biological threats to the purity of the German-Aryan race.
Racial politics
According to a large group of historians, the "race war" against Soviet Union, which began in 1941, took place in a specific historical context where it became possible to kill people - Jews, Poles and Russians - in a new and terrible manner.
Nazi racial policy between 1933 and 1945 consisted of two elements: eugenics and racial segregation (later racial extermination).
Thus, the Nazis tried to keep their own "race" free from abnormalities and diseases (eugenics) and keep the Aryan race closed to other "inferior" races (racial segregation and extermination). In the name of eugenics, the Nazis initiated forced sterilization of hereditary patients and euthanized approximately 200,000 mentally and physically disabled Germans.
Another part of the racial policy, racial segregation, was initiated to suppress and persecute all non-Aryans, primarily Jews. Later, racial segregation was tightened and became a policy of racial expulsion: Jews were forced to emigrate. This policy succeeded successfully in Austria in 1938, and was then introduced in Germany itself under the slogan: “ Germany for the Germans!" But why did the Germans kill Jews in the first place? Most historians believe that this was most influenced by Hitler's personal dislike of this race.
The collapse of the policy of forced emigration
It would seem that the Nazis would stop at the law of forced emigration. So why did the Germans kill Jews during the war? The fact is that after the occupation of Poland in 1939, the policy of forced emigration became unsuitable for the Nazi regime. It was simply unrealistic for more than 3 million Polish Jews to emigrate. This led to ambitious Nazi plans to solve the “Jewish question.” On January 20, 1942, under the leadership of Police Chief Reinhard Heydrich, several high-ranking officials of the Nazi state met to discuss the “Final Solution to the Jewish Question.” As a result of this meeting, Heydrich received full support from the participants for the systematic extermination of the Jews. The decision itself, the extermination of the Jews, was presumably made before the conference.
Extermination Policy
In 1941, the Nazi leadership determined the future of the Jews. Beginning this year, Jews were executed and murdered on an incredibly large scale. The massacres began in connection with the war against the Soviet Union, which started on June 22, 1941. In total, 1.5 million Jews were killed in the occupied Soviet territories, with the help of local anti-Semites. Almost simultaneously, mass executions began in six “extermination camps” located in Poland. At least 3 million Jews died in these camps. To this must be added another 1.5 million Jews who died in concentration camps, ghettos and other places as a result of starvation, slave labor and arbitrary executions.
Even those who didn’t like history lessons at school know about Hitler’s cruelty towards Jews and Gypsies. He did not hide his hatred, but openly demonstrated it both in his public speeches and in his monstrous actions. But how to explain such a brutal attitude? Why didn't Hitler like Jews and Gypsies?
There are many versions, some are more or less reliable, and some are more like fiction. Of course, the Fuhrer’s hatred was not limited only to these two peoples; among his targets for destruction were the Slavs, the disabled, and the insane. This article reveals the supposed reasons why Adolf Hitler did not like Jews. We will also talk about gypsies. But first it’s worth mentioning how Hitler treated Jews initially. It turns out that he did not always feel wild hatred towards them.
Hitler's first impression of the Jewish people
While still a teenager, Adolf met a Jewish youth. They studied together at school. He looked withdrawn and behaved suspiciously, so other students had little contact with him. Hitler also did not establish a close relationship with that Jew. Although at that time he believed that the difference between Germans and Jews lies only in the way they worship God.
Then one day on the street of Vienna he noticed a man who did not look like everyone else, he noticed a very long frock coat and curls called sidelocks. This impressed Hitler so much that he decided to learn more about the Jewish people. To this end, Adolf began to research the relevant literature with his characteristic Austrian-German meticulousness. The first anti-Semitic brochures fell into his hands. They openly voiced negativity towards this people. But oddly enough, this information rather aroused in him a feeling of compassion (although such a word hurts the ear if used in relation to the future tyrant). He could not understand why the whole world was burning with hatred of the Jews, and at first he believed that this was unfair. But he soon found reasons for himself. Among the more or less probable ones one can name the then influential position of the Jewish people and their belonging to the “inferior” race.
The Power of the Jewish People
In one of his public reports (1941), Hitler called them “almighty Jewry, which has declared war on the whole world.” This speech partly explains why Hitler did not like Jews. Photos and videos of his performances clearly demonstrate his fanatical belief in the truth of his beliefs.
Basically, he was irritated by the fact that it was the Jews who constituted the top of political and economic life. This was partly true. After Germany's collapse in World War I, the value of the German mark plummeted, and the average worker's wages became worthless overnight. It was a sin for enterprising Jews not to take advantage of the current situation. During these years, many of them made enormous capital. For example, the Jews completely controlled the iron and metal market. They also had an overwhelming influence on finance. Before the start of the Third Reich, almost all bankers were Jews. The spheres of commerce and culture almost entirely belonged to them. Almost everywhere they occupied exclusively leadership positions.
Of course, in fairness it must be said that not all Jews were fabulously rich, although this people as a whole owned enormous capital in those years. But even poor Jews did not want to get their hands dirty with hard physical labor. They increasingly liked moneylending, or at least sewing clothes. In the eyes of the Germans, it looked as if they, the Germans, had to bend their backs for the benefit of some nominees who, moreover, were also non-Christians. Moreover, at that time in Berlin itself there were more Jews than native residents. The ambitious Adolf Hitler was disgusted by such superiority of the “inferior” race.
Not surprisingly, all of the factors mentioned caused enormous social tension. It is this situation in the country that explains why Hitler did not like Jews. He acted as a kind of public mouthpiece. The dictator also openly called them the most stupid, irresponsible and unscrupulous people of all living on Earth.
Hitler's racial theory
In his work “My Struggle,” Hitler explained in detail his theory about the superiority of the Germans, whom he called the Aryans. Only they, according to his opinion, are worthy of being the rightful masters of the world. He describes the external characteristics of the Aryans: blue eyes, fair skin, tall or average height, and identifies idealism and dedication as character traits. Hitler didn't like Jews because they weren't like that.
The second racial group - the Slavs - should be destroyed in the majority, and the survivors deserve to be only slaves of the Aryans.
Secondary reasons why Hitler did not like Jews also apply. Having placed them on the lowest level relative to all other nations, the convinced anti-Semite sought and found indirect evidence of their baseness. Here are some of them.
Uncleanliness
This is another reason why Hitler did not like Jews. Prim Germans from childhood were accustomed to cleanliness and observed the rules of hygiene. Unlike them, Jews, according to Hitler's observations, did not particularly care about their appearance. They often gave off an unpleasant odor. This increased Adolf Hitler's disgust towards them; he branded them as a dirty people, both physically and morally.
Low morale
As for morality, this is another reason why Hitler did not like Jews. The history of Jewish arranged marriages dates back to ancient times. In such families there was no place for sensual love, relationships were strained and cold, and spouses had to look for pleasure on the side. Hitler was especially indignant about the corruption of Aryan girls. He also argued that it was the Jews who were susceptible to vices who gave rise to the syphilis epidemic that was raging in Germany at that time. In addition, only Jewish names appeared among the publishers of pornographic literature. Hitler considered himself a hospital orderly whose goal was to cleanse Germany of evil spirits.
Resourcefulness and hypocrisy
The intellectual wealth of the Jews aroused not admiration, but envy of the Fuhrer. The sharp mind inherent in the Jews as a people in general and in each one in particular, more than once helped them get away with it. Everyone knows their ability to answer a question with a question and say only what their interlocutor wants to hear. Hitler saw such rather innocent qualities as a clear threat, and this also in some way explains, but in no way justifies, why Hitler did not like Jews.
Personal reasons
Rumor has it that Hitler actually disliked Jews after a Jewish prostitute infected him with syphilis in his youth. Then he had to undergo treatment for a long time.
Another version of why Hitler did not like Jews is that his mother died young because of an unscrupulous doctor, again a Jew.
He failed an exam at an art school due to a negative attitude towards him from a teacher with Jewish roots. But young Adolf’s original dream was to become an artist, and not the savior of humanity.
And the most discussed theory of hatred of Semites is this: Hitler himself was a quarter Jewish on his father’s side. Through the Holocaust he wanted to hide his shameful origins.
Each of these versions is based more on rumors than on hard facts, and does not have reliable written evidence.
Gypsies
So, if all the world’s crimes were attributed to the Jews, then what were the Gypsies guilty of? Why didn't Hitler like Jews and gypsies along with them? The reasons are almost the same. He classified the Gypsies as a “lower” race, although by their origin (from India) they are more Aryans, for that matter, than the Germans themselves. But still, Hitler considered them garbage that needed to be destroyed. It is no secret that gypsies lead a wandering lifestyle, are not engaged in physical labor, but more and more in songs, dances, theft and fortune telling. Consequently, they found no place in the society of the Third Reich. In addition, the same untidiness of the gypsies in relation to their hygiene played an evil role.
Results of Hate
Hitler began to implement his plans for the purity of Europe with his characteristic fanaticism. The monstrous numbers speak for themselves. The number of victims of the Roma genocide ranges from 200 thousand to one and a half million people. A third of the world's Jewish population lost their lives due to the Holocaust.
To summarize, Hitler came up with a common enemy for the German nation, who is to blame for everything, and if necessary, it would be possible to “hang all the dogs” on him. The sad history of these peoples shows what blind prejudice leads to.
When Hitler was appointed Reich Chancellor on January 30, 1933, no one doubted that an ardent anti-Semite had come to power. Hateful attacks against Jews occupied much space in Mein Kampf, and the Nazi Party program prohibited the admission of Jews into it.
The anti-Semitism of the National Socialists had its traditional reasons: Jews were accused of controlling Germany disproportionately most economic and spiritual life, using this power exclusively in their own interests. In addition, the Nazis saw the Jews as the vanguard of the Communist Party. At the same time, they referred to the fact that Jews played a leading role in October revolution, and in the short-lived regime of Bela Kun in Hungary, and in the even more short-lived Bavarian Republic.
The coming to power of the NSRPG in Germany was an unpleasant blow for German Jews, who for the most part were assimilated and considered themselves good patriots. For some time they hoped that by taking on the burden of state responsibility, the National Socialists would become more moderate. After all, during election campaign anti-Semitism did not play a leading role. They voted for the NSRPG not out of hatred of Jews, but because they thought that Hitler would give the Germans jobs and bread.
After the arson of the Reichstag on February 27, 1933 and the triumph of the National Socialists on March 5 of the same year in the elections, repressions were not long in coming, but their victims were almost exclusively leftists, primarily communists. The first concentration camp appeared in Dachau at the end of March, followed by other camps. There were also Jews among the prisoners, but not as Jews or Jews, but as left-wing activists (or criminals).
At this time, only individual fanatics or hooligans indulged in acts against Jews, but the government did not approve of them.
Hitler took the first measures against Jews on April 1, 1933, calling for a boycott of Jewish stores. Various paragraphs of the law on the legal profession, issued six days later, as well as the decision to restore professional bureaucracy, became more serious and comprehensive. Most of the Jewish officials were dismissed, often under the guise of retirement. The regulations against the Jews were not as harsh as the Nazis wanted, because Hitler had to reckon with his partners in the conservative camp.
With the help of these resolutions, the number of Jewish lawyers and notaries was greatly reduced. Shortly thereafter, a 1.5 percent rate was introduced for Jews in medical and law faculties. In the following months, many Jews who served in government institutions or educational institutions, were fired, retired, or prohibited from practicing their profession. Then, for a time, the storm seemed to subside, and 10,000 of the 60,000 Jews who had left Germany after Hitler came to power returned to Germany.
But those were illusory hopes. In September 1935, the Reichstag came to " Nuremberg laws", prohibiting marriages and extramarital relations between Jews and "Aryans", but then there was a pause again, partly due to Olympic Games 1936 in Berlin. 1937 brought large-scale "Arization" of the German economy, which meant Jews were forced to sell their businesses and firms for mostly less than the real price.
In 1938, the National Socialist regime tightened the screws even tighter. In June, Jews sentenced to imprisonment for more than a month were sent to concentration camps. In November, Polish Jew Herschel Grünszpan assassinated a German diplomat in Paris, leading to the famous Kristallnacht.
Excesses took place throughout Germany, during which many synagogues were desecrated, Jewish shops were looted and burned, from 36 to 91 Jews were killed and many were wounded. In Germany itself and Austria, which became part of the Reich in March, 31.5 thousand Jews were arrested and placed in four camps: Sachsenhausen, Buchenwald, Dachau and Mauthausen. True, most of them were soon released, but the shock of Kristallnacht and the subsequent arbitrary measures taken by the government - for example, a fine of one billion marks was imposed on the German Jewish community - dispelled all hopes among the Jews of improving their situation. Before October 1941, when the order to stop emigration was issued, two-thirds of German Jews had left Germany, and among those who remained, already in 1939, more than half were over 65 years old.
The same process, but at a faster pace, occurred after the Anschluss in March 1938 in Austria and in the Protectorate of Bohemia and Moravia after the partition of Czechoslovakia in March 1939. Within a short time, most of the Austrian and a significant number of Czech Jews emigrated.
This mass exodus fully corresponded to the plans of the National Socialists and then they supported it with all their might. Jews were driven to emigrate by various oppressions to which they had been subjected since 1935. To strengthen it the Nazis collaborated closely with the Zionist circles interested in the resettlement of as many Jews as possible to Palestine. This collaboration, which these days is largely hushed up, is very well told in the book Death's Head Order by Heinz Hoehne, a classic study of the SS, which is based on the following facts.
In the fall of 1934, Leopold Edler von Mildenstein, who later became an SS Unterscharführer, published an article in the Nazi organ Angrif on the prospects for a Jewish state in Palestine. As a regular participant in Zionist congresses, Mildenstein saw the solution to the Jewish question in the emigration of Jews to the British Mandatory Territory, where the state of Israel later actually emerged. This article drew the attention of Reinhard Heydrich, head of the SD (security service), who liked the idea. All German Jews must go to Palestine, if possible voluntarily or under pressure. Of course, a minority of Jewish emigrants chose Palestine as their new homeland, while the majority preferred to go to other countries, mainly to the United States.
Mildenstein's plan included the "dissimilation" of assimilated Jews and their transformation into Zionists. On Himmler's orders, he organized a "Jewish Sector" to encourage emigration. This sector supported retraining camps where young Jews received agricultural training to work on Palestinian kibbutzim. In August 1936, at least 37 such camps were operating in Germany. One of them is mentioned in Neudorf even in March 1942!
One of the most active employees of the mentioned sector was SS man Adolf Eichmann, who on February 27, 1937 met in Berlin with the Zionist leader Feivel Polkesh, who held the position of commander of the Jewish Hagan militia in Palestine. Polkesh told Eichmann that he wanted with all his might to promote the emigration of Jews to Palestine, so that over time there would be more Jews than Palestinians. In October of the same year, Eichmann met in Cairo with Polkes for negotiations for a second time. After them, SS man Herbert Hagen, who accompanied Eichmann, declared greater satisfaction with which Jewish nationalists perceived the radical policy of the Germans towards the Jews, because it contributed to an increase in their number in Palestine.
However, the described plan soon encountered difficulties, as it caused unrest among the Arab population of the mandated territory and the British decided to slow down emigration. In December 1937, the first corresponding orders were issued, and in May 1939 the White Paper appeared, according to which only 75 thousand Jews were allowed into Palestine in the next five years, although illegal immigration, naturally, went on its own. The outbreak of war in September 1939 dealt a crushing blow to the SD's Palestinian plans, because the Germans did not really want to alienate the Arabs, their potential allies in the war with the British.
After the United States and other countries took measures to reduce Jewish emigration, Germany began to think about relocating Jews to Madagascar. A proponent of this idea was Franz Rademacher, head of the Jewish sector in the German department of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs. The implementation of this project became real after the defeat of France, whose colony was this huge island. However, Petain opposed it, but even if he agreed with the plan, it would be difficult to implement it, since there were few ships for transportation and the British controlled the sea routes.
After being captured by the Germans at the beginning of the war with the USSR large territories in the East, in Berlin, a plan arose to create a zone inhabited by Jews. On July 31, 1941, Goering wrote to Heydrich:
“In addition to the task set by the order of January 24, 1939, the possibility of favorably solving the Jewish question in the form emigration and evacuation In accordance with the circumstances of the time, I instruct you to make all the necessary preparations of an organizational, business and material nature for the general solution of the Jewish question in the German zone of influence in Europe. Other competent central authorities may be involved. I further instruct you to submit to me in the near future overall plan preliminary measures of an organizational, business and material nature for the implementation of the envisaged final solution to the Jewish question.”
Holocaust supporters cite this letter all the time, interpreting it as the beginning of the extermination of the Jews. Since the words “in the form of emigration or evacuation” are confusing, sometimes they are simply omitted. When correctly quoted, for example, by Raoul Gilberg, these words are presented as a disguised “extermination”. Gilberg also concludes that, having received the letter, Heydrich firmly took control of the process of genocide. True, he does not explain why the second-ranking National Socialist had to resort to allegory in his informal letter to the chief of the Nazi police. Since not a single written order for the extermination of Jews has been found, adherents of the Holocaust myth have to speculate on what is not in the text. Speaking about the emigration and evacuation of Jews, Goering meant only this and nothing else. And indeed, starting in 1941, Jews from Germany and the occupied regions were transported to the East, first to Poland, and then to all more in Russia. Since hundreds of thousands of Jews were taken to the camps, their fate was unenviable even without an extermination plan.
There were three reasons for the behavior of the Nazis. Firstly, they urgently needed work force at a time when most combat-ready men were at the front, and generally well-trained Jews were especially suitable as such. The transport of elderly people and children to the camps is simply explained by the fact that families did not want to be separated. Secondly, the Jews were considered unreliable, for they undoubtedly always stood on the side of the enemy. As already indicated, the percentage of Jews in the occupied countries of the Resistance fighters was very large. Thirdly, the Nazis thought to use favorable circumstances to speed up " final decision"the Jewish question, by which they meant - contrary to the legend about the physical extermination of the Jews - their emigration or resettlement to territory on the eastern outskirts of the German sphere of power.
Although, as stated, emigration was officially prohibited in the fall of 1941, the law was not strictly enforced, and Jews were able to leave Europe during the war. The ban on emigration was, of course, aimed at preventing combat-ready and technically educated Jews from entering the service of the enemy. That is why Jews began to be deported to the East from the end of 1941. Below we will return to the fate of the deportees.
In European countries occupied by Hitler, Jews in varying degrees had to suffer deportation. Unexpectedly, it greatly affected Dutch Jews, most of whom were deported, while the Jews of Belgium and France were little affected - mainly foreign Jews were deported from these countries. Since the National Socialists' goal was to drive the Jews out of Europe, they naturally began where there were least difficulties. In France and Belgium, they had to reckon with local governments that opposed the deportation of Jews, their fellow citizens. After the German attack, the government fled from Holland and therefore the Nazis could do whatever they wanted.
By the way, the deportation and internment of Jews in Hitler's Reich has historical parallel: The US and Canada interned most of the Japanese, even those with American and Canadian passports. And this despite the fact that - as Reagan admitted decades later - not a single case of espionage or subversion on the part of Japanese Americans was identified!
Now let us risk touching on a very delicate topic - the question of how consciously the Zionists, especially the American ones, provoked the persecution of Jews in Germany and the occupied countries and what is their responsibility - if not legal, then at least moral - for the plight of the Jews.
American Jew Edwin Black describes in his sensationally frank book “The Transfer Agreement,” published in 1984, the stages of the economic war unleashed by Jewish organizations against Germany immediately after Hitler came to power, i.e. even before the first anti-Semitic decrees. On March 27, 1933, a large rally took place in Madison Square Garden in New York, the participants of which demanded a complete boycott of Germany until the day the National Socialist government was overthrown. McConnell, one of the speakers, stated in part:
“... Even if persecution in Germany weakens for a while, we must continue protests and rallies against the Nazis until they are removed from power.”
And Stephen S. Wise, president of the Congress of American Jews and one of the organizers of the rally, warned that:
At the same time, a boycott began in other countries. In Poland "... at mass rallies, in unison with the rally of the Congress (American Jews), it was decided to extend the boycott that began in Vilnius to the entire country. In Warsaw, the three largest Jewish trading firms pledged to “take the strongest measures of protection by boycotting goods imported from Germany. In London, almost all the Jewish shops in the Whitechapel area slammed their doors on the German merchants.”
The consequences of this economic boycott were disastrous for Germany:
“Trade unions took action against particularly important areas of industry that brought primarily foreign exchange earnings, such as fur dressing. It is estimated that the total German losses in this area alone amounted to 100 million marks in 1933.”
It seemed that the words from the article “Jews Declaring War on Germany”, published on March 24 in the Daily Express, were indeed beginning to come true:
“Jews around the world unite to declare financial and economic war on Germany... All friction and contradictions are forgotten in the face of one common goal... to force Nazi Germany to stop its terror and violence against the Jewish minority.”
Black justifies this economic war by the German government's ruthless suppression of Jews:
“The Nazis started a war with the Jews, mobilizing all of Germany. For their part, the Jews launched a war against the Nazis, exciting the whole world. Ahead are boycotts, protest marches, rallies against Hitler. Germany had to be isolated politically, and even economically and culturally, until the Nazi leadership fell. So, Germany was again being taught a bitter lesson.”
The author’s mistake is only that at that time there was simply no “war unleashed against the Jews with the mobilization of all of Germany,” no “terror and violence against the Jewish minority,” “gratuitous murders, starvation, extermination and diabolical persecution.” (these are the words of Samuel Untermeyer, government adviser and chairman of the Non-Sectarian Anti-Nazi League). There were only isolated incidents of anti-Semitic hooligans, against whom the new regime took all possible measures, as is clearly evidenced by the statements of German Jewish organizations. On March 31, Max Naumann, honorary chairman of the Union of National German Jews, responded in the Neue Wiener Journal:
“First of all, I want to tell you that I oppose this anti-German persecution through inciting horrors. This campaign reminds me of the recent persecution of the Germans and their allies during the war. Even the details and methods are exactly the same when it was written about severed children's hands and gouged out eyes and about the use of corpses to obtain fatty substances. In this context fit the current statements that dismembered corpses of Jews are lying in cemeteries, that as soon as a Jew goes outside, he is attacked. There were, of course, isolated incidents, but that was all... And I know that in these cases the authorities acted without ceremony. We German Jews are, in any case, convinced that the government and the leadership of the NSRPG really want to maintain peace and order.”
Everyone understood that the Nazis, unable to reach the instigators of the boycott campaign, would unleash their wrath on German Jews. In vain, however, Dr. Loewenstein, chairman of the “Imperial Union of German Front-line Soldiers,” in a letter to American Jews sent to the US Embassy in Berlin, called for a stop to this madness:
“We think it’s time to distance ourselves from the irresponsible persecution that is being carried out abroad by the so-called. Jewish intellectuals. The arrows that you throw from your protected shelter, although they harm Germany and German Jews, still do not bring honor to the shooters themselves.”
The terrible abuse of German Jews in 1933 existed only in the imagination of propagandists, which is confirmed by such an absolutely impeccable eyewitness as the Jewish historian Arno Mayer, describing the situation of that time:
“Among the first prisoners of the Third Reich there were relatively few Jews and, characteristically, they were arrested as politicians, lawyers or left-wing writers.”
One thing is obvious - no one was arrested at that time just because he was a Jew. Elsewhere, Mayer talks about the reason for the boycott:
“On March 20, a committee of prominent American Jews, concerned about the ominous instructions in Streicher’s Stürmer, decided to call a mass meeting in Madison Square Garden on March 27.”
The reason, or rather the pretext, for the unprecedented boycott campaign was the “sinister instructions” in an unofficial leaflet, which, due to its primitiveness and pornographic nature, was despised even by many Nazis!
Hitler responded to the international boycott with the aforementioned one-day boycott of Jewish shops, which, by the way, was carried out on Saturday, when most of them were already closed. A huge number of school textbooks contain a photograph taken that day: outside a Jewish store, SS men point to a poster “Don’t buy from Jews!” The textbooks, however, do not say how long this boycott lasted or what caused it. This is how history is falsified.
Subsequently, Jewish organizations in the United States and other countries did not hesitate to do anything to provoke new measures against German Jews. In August 1933, Untermeyer said in a speech broadcast nationwide:
“Each of you, whether he is a Jew or a non-Jew, who has not yet become a participant in the holy war, must become one today... Not only do you not buy German goods, you should not associate at all with merchants or shopkeepers selling German products, or with using German ships... - To our shame, there are several Jews among us - fortunately, they are few - who have so little pride and self-respect that they sail on German ships... Everyone should know their names. They are traitors to our nation."
In January 1934, when in Germany no one - with the exception of some criminal fanatics - laid a finger on a single Jew because of his religion or nationality, the radical Zionist Vladimir Jabotinsky wrote:
“All Jewish communities and every Jew individually, all trade unions at every congress and at every congress have been fighting against Germany for months all over the world. We will launch a spiritual and physical war against Germany from the whole world. Our Jewish interests require complete destruction Germany."
In Berlin, such statements were taken literally. German Jews had to pay for them, and no one asked whether they agreed with the chatter of the Untermeyers, Wises and Jabotinskys. The Zionists knew what they were doing. As always, they used German Jews as bargaining chips in the struggle to create their state. During the war, bullying intensified even more. On December 3, 1942, Chaim Weizmann, head of the World Zionist Organization, stated:
“We are a Trojan horse in the enemy camp. The thousands of Jews living in Europe are the main factor in the destruction of our enemies.”
It was these phrases that the National Socialists referred to when giving orders for the deportation of Jews to camps and ghettos.
Even before the United States entered the war, the American Jew Nathanael Kaufman published a book entitled “Germany Must Perish,” in which he demanded the complete extermination of the German people through sterilization:
“If we remember that vaccinations and serums bring benefits to the population, then the sterilization of the German people should be treated as a wonderful hygienic measure on the part of humanity in order to forever protect ourselves from the bacteria of the German spirit.”
Although Kaufman's book went almost unnoticed in the United States, Goebbels and Streicher skillfully took advantage of this craft, ordering it to be immediately translated into German and published in large quantities. In this regard, the German Jew Gideon Burg correctly noted:
“It looks as if the urchins at the circus began throwing stones at the lion, into whose mouth the tamer had put his head. There would be nothing for the urchins - between them and danger there is an ocean, that is, the bars of an animal cage.”
Frivolity or naivety? Hardly. It should not be forgotten that the Zionist strategy was to incite Hitler to increasingly harsh anti-Semitic measures to oppress the Jews. On the one hand, this pushed German Jews to emigrate to Palestine, on the other hand, the Zionists argued to the governments of Western powers that there was a need for a national home for Jews. The propaganda of “horrors” about the extermination of Jews, which began in 1942, was aimed at the same thing. This is not difficult to judge from statements such as those made by Weizmann in the New York Times on March 2, 1943:
“Two million Jews have already been exterminated... The task of democracies is obvious... they must negotiate through neutral countries, seeking the liberation of Jews in the occupied areas... May the gates of Palestine open to all who wish to see the shores of the Jewish Fatherland.”
It is a lie that two million Jews were exterminated in early 1943, but by this time tens of thousands had met their end in the camps.
