Anti-Semitism has profound historical reasons.
In western culture, there has been an anti-Semitic sentiment since ancient times. Jews are described as traitors to Jesus, speculators and unclean people. Jews are nomadic people distributed in the Palestinian areas of West Asia. They were originally a branch of the ancient Semitic people. They once established an ancient country of Israel and a Jewish kingdom, which was later destroyed by the Roman Empire. Unwilling to be enslaved, hundreds of thousands of people were killed, and the rest were forced to leave their homes and migrate around the world.
In medieval western Europe, land was regarded as the most precious wealth, while commerce was an industry that people despised. Jews do not have their own country and land, and they migrate everywhere, so they can only make a living by doing business. After they moved to western Europe, they were discriminated against by the local feudal lords.
Religious feelings have evolved into a universal mentality.
There are also religious reasons for hatred of Jews in western Europe. The Old Testament, one of Christian classics, was originally a Jewish classic, and there is a close historical relationship between the two religions. According to Christian doctrine, Judas, one of Jesus' 12 disciples, betrayed Jesus, and it was the Jews who crucified him, which led to Christians' emotional hatred of Jews.
In Europe, anti-Semitism is the most serious in Germany. Both the German nation and the Jewish nation have a strong sense of national pride and mission. Jews call themselves "God's voters", while Germans have led Europe for centuries. The emperors of the "Holy Roman Empire" established by the German King (962- 1806) became the secular heads of state of the whole Christian world. Against the background of universal belief in Christ Jesus and anti-Semitism, German rulers believe that they have the task of leading European monarchies against Judaism. This socialization of religious feelings has gradually evolved into a social mentality of general aversion to Jews, which has been spreading viciously in Germany from the Middle Ages to modern times.
From A.D. 13 to A.D. 15, the German economy experienced a huge stage of development, but the emerging bourgeoisie in Germany had a conflict of interest with the emerging Jewish capitalists who became rich through business, and bad luck came to the Jews again. Conflicts of real interests and differences in religious beliefs forced a large number of Jews to be driven to Eastern Europe and American countries. This anti-Semitic consciousness has been "passed down" in Germany until modern times.
Political goals lead to slaughter.
/kloc-in the middle of the 0/9th century, anti-Semitism in Germany began to have a clear political purpose. German politicians found that in the face of the economic recession at that time, making Jews the culprit could effectively eliminate the voices against the regime. At that time, nationalism prevailed in Germany, and the original religious feelings intensified under the conflict of real interests, which made people's original anti-Semitism more intense, thus intensifying their hatred of Jews.
After World War I, Germany became a defeated country. In the world economic crisis in the late 1920s and early 1930s, Germany suffered heavy losses and its national strength declined. The profound economic crisis not only intensified the class contradictions at home, but also stimulated the monopoly bourgeoisie's ambition to expand abroad. "The German nation must find a way out from the plundered land and production space." Hitler's idea of fighting for the world was supported by the German monopoly bourgeoisie. However, the implementation of the evil plan to establish the Germanic empire of the German nation requires huge funds to provide financial security. With the decline of national strength, it is inevitable that Hitler will reach out to the rich Jews.
The Nazi Party headed by Hitler flaunted the German nation as an excellent nation and regarded the Jewish nation as an inferior nation under the banner of nationalism and socialism prevailing in Germany at that time. In order to confuse the audience and deceive the German people, Hitler carefully packaged this theory of racial discrimination from two aspects. First, according to his own social logic, he took some words out of context from the predecessors' expositions on population issues and pieced them together into a theory of racial superiority and inferiority, thus creating a theoretical basis for pushing Jews to inferior races. The second is to make full use of the deep-rooted anti-semitic consciousness and religious complex in the hearts of the German people and advocate the fallacy of "Jewish plague". After Hitler deliberately "grafted" this theory, it is not racial discrimination in the general sense. Hitler used historical religious factors to create a broad social foundation for his extermination of Jews, which made this theory more inflammatory. The Nazi party also took advantage of the German people's hatred of the Treaty of Versailles at that time, incited revenge, and transferred this sentiment to the Jews. Because of this, Hitler successfully carried out a set of crazy anti-Semitic policies as soon as he took office, which caused a rare catastrophe in human history in which one nation slaughtered another.
As some historians have pointed out, the crime of Nazi Germany's massacre of Jews was "the result of systematic political fooling and educating people by hypocritical German politicians for their war of aggression".
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