Mein Kampf Hitler Anti Semitic Analysis

Hitler was incredibly significant for the Jews, however only to a certain extent. Hitler is still significant as he has increased the understanding of anti semitism. Millions of lives were affected by Hitler and his actions. However, not all of it was Hitler’s fault. He massively influenced many party officials and German people, especially those originated from the Nazi Party. Anti-semitic views and Jewish discrimination did not start with Hitler - he was just a powerful man who expressed his thoughts in an impressive manner to these people. He promised change to a broken Germany, giving them faith. Therefore, many did whatever they believed would please him and make that change happen.

Antisemitism was not created by Hitler. This existed

Hitler made strong attempts in order to express his hatred for the Jews. For example, Hitler’s book Mein Kampf, which was written whilst he was in prison in 1925, is evidence of Hitler’s dissatisfaction with Jews. Many historians still struggle to understand and interpret the book, as it was massively unclear due to the fact that it sometimes contradicted itself and was inaccurate in detail. Because of this, it shows how he is still significant to this day. Judging from the way Mein Kampf was written and interviews with Hitler, he is an exceptionally violent man. In 1933, Hitler stated in an interview in New York with Staatszeitung that it was “essential to take steps to establish a clear and clean separation between the two races”. This shows his commitment of separating “his” Aryans from the Jews. Officials and German people may have been influenced by this - due to their admiration of Hitler - causing them to obey and carry out whatever he wanted. His brutality was shown when he stated that he determined to have “gallows and gallows [of Jews] erected” (stated in a conversation with Josef Hell, 1922). His comments were obviously influential for Germans. Hitler’s significance is expressed through this as it shows his persistence with the Jewish elimination, and shows how his animosity still confuses and intrigues us, today,

Many Germans claimed that they did not know how Jews were being executed, and it causes others to wonder if Hitler himself knew about the horrendous events occurring in his country. In January 1942, Reinhard Heydrich, a high ranking Nazi official, had called a conference in Wannsee with other Nazi officials to discuss the ‘extermination’ of the remaining Jews. However, Hitler was not involved in this conference. Knowing this, the question of Hitler’s awareness of what was actually going on in Germany rises. On the other hand, it does again emphasise Hitler’s influence on the people of Germany within the persecution of the Jews. Hitler had a view for a ‘Greater Germany’, a different Germany to the economically broken and struggling one in the 1930’s. Since his views seemed so outstanding for the country at the time, both party officials and ordinary Germans attempted to make this ‘dream’ become a reality, which involved persecuting the Jews within the country as well as those that Germany had power over. This was a genocide. Because of this, Nazi officials had high attempts to impress Hitler by imposing laws, coming up with ideas such as organising rallies to discriminate them further, pogroms, etc. just to gain some recognition from him. For example, Kristallnacht in 1938 was carried out by Goebbels, which could possibly have been done just to