Of note.
Hitlers mother was being treated by a Jewish doctor, when she died suddenly.
Those who knew Hitler, said that the event hit him VERY hard.
He was a changed man, without his mother, whom he was very close with.
Historians point to this fact, as the likely origin of Hitler’s antisemitism.
Other Historians, claim that the fact that the doctor was Jewish didn’t matter to Hitler.
After all, they sought/accepted the help of the Jewish doctor in the first place.
It’s hard to see 1940’s Hitler, as having a Jewish doctor.
I agree with most here, that it was not just a Jewish hatred.
Although it’s important to note that Hitler rose to power after Germany had suffered defeat, and signed treaties that would financially stunt Germany for years to come.
(BMW, actually still complies with the agreement they made following WW1, in which they agreed never to construct aircraft again. That’s why the BMW emblem is a propeller. The company was an aircraft producer.)
Many German people were feeling the agony of defeat, mixed with the economic despair caused by sanctions and treaties, and were ripe for a charismatic leader to come along and blame someone for their woes.
As there was a preexisting antisemitism in Germany, and Jewish people were not affected as badly by the loss of WW1, they became an easy scapegoat.
Hitler was very bold. With every great victory, he aimed his sights higher. He was actually very lucky, that the world was still very much suffering from war fatigue. So. Other countries were slow to help one another.
Hitler betrayed Mussolini, and Stalin.
A lot of Russian people, were Jewish. As a strategy for keeping his country in war mode, it helped his cause to sell the ill-advised fall invasion of Russia to his generals, and people.
Hitler, like many people, was an opportunist.
He basically crafted his own story, with lies of his military service in WW2, and painted himself as a savior to Germany.
He also had to overcome the previous regimes, and older styled thinking German public.
I HATE, to go here, but here I go.
This is the same strategy Trump ,and those like him are using.
Writing their own narrative, and choosing a “bad guy,” they can stir fear about. All just to ride preexisting concepts, knowing that the anger was already there.
Some people, obviously will use anyone, and/or anything, to claw their way into power.
Getting people to unite on a common perceived enemy, plays into our built-in tribalism.
If there is no enemy, one can always be manufactured.
Then, groups have a “purpose.”
The better question is, why did all those German people play along in such pure evil?
No leader would ever exist, without a lot of other people keeping them in power.
That is the relationship between a country’s people, and their leaders.
The “leaders”(politicians,) are always trying to romance people into liking them. Even if there is never an authentic reason.
Hitler spoke to the darker parts of his followers’ hearts. Where petty things like hating people just for who they are is.
He taped into their pride as well.
Sheep. Sheople. That’s the weakness that Hitler took advantage of.
