Did The Holocaust Only Occur Because Of Hitler's Ideas About Race

History Essay Ben Hilder

Did the Holocaust only occur because of Hitler’s ideas about race? This is partly true but not entirely true it could be partly true because of how hard the Germans had to live though before the Nazi party came to power. A lot of Germans at the time had no where to stay and had to stay on the streets and had to go though bins and try and find food to eat while the Jewish had good jobs that paid well nice homes and were able to buy there own food. But the Holocaust could of happen for another reason not because of jealousy which turned into racism I could have been the fact that they were blamed for world war one and had to sign the treaty of Versailles which was a peace treaty and made them have a weaker army.

Most Jewish people at the time were either bankers or lawyers which Hitler was not. Most German people had to scrape for food and live on the streets while Jewish people had nice houses and could buy food. At the time of the Holocaust many German people and some Jewish people believe this could have been the reason why the holocaust happen and why the Jewish nation were getting blamed for things like world war one and plagues. Though German people did approve of the Holocaust because of the suffering they went though and the Jewish nation had it easy and they just wanted the Jewish people out of there country. Which mainly a lot of them did escape to Poland. But the ones that did not escape the most of the German nation wanted the Jewish nation to be gone and out of