How Did Hitler Target Jews

In the not so distant past, Jews were doomed to an unknown fate of misery, starvation, and torture. Men, women and even children were arrested to most likely their deaths. This was the Holocaust, and it was reality for millions from January thirtieth, 1932 to May eighth, 1945. Jews migrated from the Alps and the Rhine River to modern day Germany after the rise of Christianity. What the immigrants didn’t know is how they would undergo persecution thousands of years later from one man. Born April twentieth, 1889, Adolf Hitler rose to power in Germany after World War One in 1919. Hitler claimed in his rule that “[T]he final consequence is not merely that people lose all their freedom under the domination of the Jews”. Jews were people that

He also stated in the same quote “[I]n the end that these parasites themselves disappear” (Hitler 244). To explain this quote, parasites were the Jews and Adolf Hitler wanted them gone at any cost. Due to his view on Jews and the immense power he had, Adolf Hitler proceeded to exterminate six million Jews. Why did Hitler choose to target the Jews? Many different religions existed and Europeans that weren’t German thrived, but, there are reasons why Hitler chose to target the people he did.

Adolf Hitler was born in Braunau am Inn, which is a small village in Austria. In that village, Adolf Hitler would go through events in his childhood that would make him choose to target Jews. August Kubizek, Hitler’s childhood friend, claimed “[H]e made a long speech about the contemptible institution of these soup kitchens which only symbolised the segregation of the social classes” (Kubizek 155). The segregation Kubizek referred to in that quote were Germans and Austrians were in a whole different social class in Hitler’s mind. Adolf made that response when August asked why he didn’t show up to eat at a soup kitchen with him. The soup kitchen is one of many examples. Sadly, that was what people in Vienna, where Hitler grew up, were