The Development of Anti-Semitism in Nazi Germany

Hitler’s hatred towards the Jews was known as “anti-Semitism.” When Hitler came to power in Germany, he preached to his followers that “the Jews are the image of the devil” and he blamed them for all of the problems in the world. When Hitler was 18, he arrived in Vienna hoping to get accepted into the Academy of Fine Arts as he wanted to become an artist. When he was rejected, he blamed the Jews for his setbacks. Hitler believed that the Germans were the superior race and that job positions and money were wasted on people like the Jews. He despised them and did not want them to be successful in his country. By the time Hitler left Vienna, he was a full-fledged anti-Semite and in his autobiography “Mein Kampf,” which he wrote in 1924, he made his hatred of the Jews known. Hitler believed that the Jewish people were the “eternal enemy” and that in order to save the German people; he had to exterminate them. Not only some of the Jews, but all of them.

After World War...