Jewish victims and Why

The primary victim of the Holocaust was mainly the Jewish population of Europe. Over six million perished but there are reasons why Hitler targeted the Jews. There are also reasons why nobody understood why they were being attacked in the first place.

On March 20-21 we learned many reasons why the Jews were targeted and how it can relate to some of things we learned in class. Hitler’s hatred toward the Jews started when Germany lost World War One and went through the Great Depression. He felt with most of the Jewish population not supporting or fighting well enough on front, was the reason why Germany lost the war and why the country was in such a bad economy. Hitler used his Anti Semite and other racial hatred towards others to help him get into power. Only then his ultimate goal was to have a true Aryan nation. Hitler's main goal was to racially purify Europe. By this Hitler wanted to kill anyone that wasn’t an Arien and make sure that nobody would oppose him. So that germany won't ever lose or go back to the bad state it was in before. To this day it’s still never clear of where hitler's hatred for the Jews came from.

During our trip we learned more about Anti Semitism and how it relates to some articles we learned from the past. From class and in the tours, we were told the history of Anti Semitism and how it came to be. Many people are Anti Semitic because they always believe in the same thing. One of which is the killing of Jesus. They all blame Jews for most of world's failures because they see Jews as parasites who take away good advantages and always have more money than others. This and other religious beliefs begin the hatred which will then lead to genocide. In the yellow book “Memory and Reconciliation Part A” was an article called “The Address to the Churches”. It had a section called the Ten Points. In the Ten Points it talks about how Jews and Christianity are very similar and how they have a lot to do with each other. The first major point that it talks about is how Jesus was Jewish. What many Anti Semites forget is that Jesus was Jewish and fail to realize that he was king of the Jews. Also it talks about how God spoke through the Old and New Testaments. The last example that I can think of is that since Jesus was Jewish and that people use the word Jew as if they were enemies of Jesus make us believe that they where. When obviously they weren’t. The Jews were Jesus’s people and they weren’t his enemies.

There are many reasons and excuses why people are Anti Semitic but all we know is that we must learn. What I have learned is that people will have hatred for something without even having good facts about it and not looking at the people of they target, and think they are not human. In one of the museums we went to. Marian Kolodziej a catholic who survived the holocaust drew the hatred of the victims of the Holocaust. His work showed the Jews and other victims as zombies as they were starved, beaten, tortured, and killed. To this day I will never and nobody will ever know a good reason why this hatred has occurred or happened. People believe it began in the 19th century or later. But the only question is why do people have a hatred for a group of people who Jesus represented and was apart of.