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by singwell-is off researching a lot on June 3rd, 2008
The Jewish people had been, for europeans, a people hated for a long time. At some time in history, the Roman Catholic church began to hold them responsible for the death of Christ. This gave carte blanche for any noble who owed a Jew money (as moneylending was one of the few professions Jewish people were allowed to work in) to renege on his debt by killing or driving out the Jews from his area.
So, the stage was set for the Nazis to turn this into a dogma. They needed a scapegoat for the economic troubles of post WW1 Germany. By blaming the Jewish people and confiscating their wealth (only a small percentage of Jewish people were, in fact, wealthy), Hitler could claim back the lands taken by the Allies (by saying that the League of nations was a Jewish conspiracy) and to put Germany on a war economy.
But it was not only the Jews that Hitler and the Nazis targetted. They also saw the Romany (Gypsies) as a different kind of threat, and tried to annihilate them as a people as well.
Then they picked on anyone who opposed them: Catholics, Protestants, communists and anyone they saw as not contributing to the state (mentally challenged, disabled etc).
The Nazis were just all round "lovers of mankind", as long as mankind were blonde and blue-eyed.
Do you think Albert Speer's guilt was genuine or did he fool the world?
by Awesome on January 13th, 2011
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Are there any former Nazis still living in Brazil?
by LEO on December 2nd, 2010
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whats your take on nazis?
by umbrakveykva on February 28th, 2011
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Why did so many Germans during Hitler's dictatorship spy on one another?
by AlexanderTheGreat on November 2nd, 2010
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Did any Hitler's attempts of propagating fail, if so what?
by AlexanderTheGreat on May 1st, 2011
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