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Like many descendants of German Jews, I've long been fascinated by Hitler's rationale. I think, fundamentally, Hitler viewed the Final Solution as the lesser of
by staunch 11y ago
Like many descendants of German Jews, I've long been fascinated by Hitler's rationale. I think, fundamentally, Hitler viewed the Final Solution as the lesser of two evils.
1918:
1. Jews make up a tiny percentage of Germany but they dominate Germany's media, banking, etc.
2. Germany wouldn't have lost the war if the Jews hadn't influenced the people back home using their control of the media. They were agents of the enemy, doing the bidding of their fellow Jews on the opposing side.
3. Jews are the reason millions of his fellow soldiers died in vain and Germany was humiliated.
1942:
4. Jews have used their influence in Britain and America to start another war with Germany.
5. This time the Jews will be eliminated so Germany won't be undermined again.
6. Killing a small percentage of the population spares the whole of the population from defeat and ruin. The needs of the many outweigh the needs of the few. The Jews must die.
- mercurial 11y agoHitler wasn't interested in the welfare of the whole world. If Nazi Germany had won the war, large-scale extermination of Slavs was the next item on the list [1]. You could say the Third Reich was just getting warmed up with the Holocaust. 1: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Generalplan_Ost https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Generalplan_Ost
- staunch 11y agoHitler believed in something like an even more brutal form of Manifest destiny. He hoped the great crimes required for building a great empire would become distant memories. He believed he was the brave soldier willing to do the hard things required for his people's long-term success. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Manifest_destiny https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Manifest_destiny https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Indian_Removal_Act https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Indian_Removal_Act
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- brador 11y agoPeople say "the jews" but were they an organised group or system? How can such a large collective of people (the jews) make a common decision on such a scale and act on it in seeming secret? Is there something fundamental in "the jews" grouping that allows them to, in theory, act cohesively? Is it their teachings? holy books? What was driving Hitlers hate against all jews, not just the jews that screwed him?
- staunch 11y agoHitler's view: All Jews are Jewish first and German second. Their true loyalty was to the other Jewish people of the World, in Britain, America, and everywhere else. They viewed the war between Germany and the western powers as a war of Jew vs Jew. Their incentive was to end the war using their massively disproportionate influence over German society. The defeat of Germany was a victory for German Jews. My view: Jews were a somewhat cohesive group of people for thousands of years. For various reasons (prosecution among them) they were insular. Through the passage of time many Jews did accumulate vast wealth and power. But most Jews were poor as shit and got nothing out of being a Jew except an extra hard life. Some Jews felt like they were more German than Jew and others felt the opposite. Many Jews died fighting bravely for Germany and many more would have done so again.
- lispm 11y agoHitler's view was that Jews are a race. A race without state. They live within other states. They also have preserved their race in a cleaner form through inbreeding, then other races. In his world view there is a hierarchy and classification of races. The 'Arier'/'Germanen'/'Deutsche' are a productive race able to create culture. There are races who can preserve culture and there are races, who can destroy culture. The jews. (I'm not a proponent of this view.)
- staunch 11y agoThis is the official Nazi doctrine but that doesn't mean Hitler's own views aren't more complicated. Like most cult leaders, he probably didn't believe his own bullshit the way his followers did. I think there are some hints that this is true.
- curun1r 11y agoIf this is a topic that fascinates you, I'd suggest you read Alice Miller's, "For Your Own Good."[1] This has always seemed to me to be the most plausible explanation for why Hitler and the German people acted in a way that seems so inexplicable. It's the only explanation I've seen that starts from the assumption that there wasn't anything fundamentally different about Hitler or the Germans of the time but that their shared psychosis was the result of well-understood psychological phenomena...that the extraordinary result derives from the extraordinary circumstances in which they lived the formative parts of their lives. [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alice_Miller_(psychologist)#For_Your_Own_Good_.28Am_Anfang_war_Erziehung.2C_1980.29 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alice_Miller_(psychologist)#Fo...