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Causes Of The Holocaust Essay

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Lane Nelson
Mrs.Griffin
English II
23 February 2023
Causes of the Holocaust The cause of the Holocaust has many reasons like Germany teaching anti-Semitic, a person that hates Jews, to children. The other reason is Adolf Hitler is also anti-Semitic and he is purposive which makes people want to hate Jews. The first thing that causes the Holocaust is anti-Semitic which makes Germans scapegoat the Jews is diversity. Germans' diversity of Jews made it easy for people to want to murder them and make the concentration camps. Germany also has children's stories written about it like the story The Poisonous Mushroom by Julius Streicher so the scapegoating for Jews develops from childhood to adulthood. In this story it talks about a mother and son …show more content…

They are the Jews! Our teacher has often told us about them”(Streicher para. 4 and 5). These quotes describe child learning and being proud that they hate Jews and the child will grow up hating people. This also shows where all the diversity is coming from the parents and teachers which makes it better for the kids to think that. Overall this will make the people want to kill and hate from a young age of life which can lead to genocide. Adolf Hitler has always blamed the Jews for the loss of World War I. Hitler is persuasive to people and with that he can make people kill and do inhuman things. Throughout the article of The Holocaust, Part One: The Rise of Adolf Hitler and World War II it explains that he works his way up the political pole and has an unknown amount of power.: “Hitler took advantage of the weakness of his political opponents. He built his party’s status, raising it from obscurity to power”(Newsela Para 8). Hitler has power to change people's ideas which makes it easier for him to get rid of all the Jews. Hitler also hates the Jews which can lead to him wanting to kill and the Pyramid of Hate shows he went through different stages of hate he went from

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