whill somone please tell me what is behind the hatred of the jews ? grrrrrr.

[Greybnk48]

11. Why the Jews have been hated historically is still up for debate. But HOW the Nazi's stirred it up is not.

Sorry, this is long, but very relevant to what's happening now in the U.S.

The Nazi's very cleverly, and successfully, propagandized the Jews pre-WW2 to make the public hate them.
This feeling spread to the West to some extent, with even some prominent Americans agreeing with the smears. The Nazi's banned Jews from participating in German society because they did not have Aryan blood. They stripped them of their citizenship if they were not Aryan, and seized all of their property, stating that non-Germans could not own anything in Germany. Stores, homes, jewelry, savings, etc.. The Nazi's passed the Nuremberg Laws that included much of this and brainwashed the public with it. Jewish Doctors and Lawyers were not permitted to practice anymore. the number of Jewish students permitted to attend schools was limited, and all the while this was propagandized. (The Doctors were dangerous, Lawyers shady, students dumb).They took pictures of Rabbis in their religious garb, which was alien to many, and mocked them publicly. They made fun of people who spoke Yiddish, which sounded strange. They began to dehumanize them, calling them "vermin" that tainted society, criminals, avaricious, untrustworthy.

This went on for several years, starting before the 1936 Olympics. Hitler toned it down for a while when they were under international scrutiny. After the Olympics the pace picked up until it wasn't hard to get away with moving to the extermination phase. A whole generation of young people saw Jews who were not prominent in society, were poor, uneducated (but not really), were not full citizens, didn't seem to contribute to society in any real way, were dehumanized.

**Here's where it gets really familiar. The German's started with an extermination program, beginning with people with Downs, and other disabilities, along with gay people. People they thought everyone would be ok with. The German public didn't like that at all, and raised hell. So those in charge changed the name of the program from "Extermination" to "Relocation," and it worked; the German people were ok with that as long as they were just getting gays and disabled people out of the country. When they started "relocating" Jews along with the others, who seemed to also be a drag on society and undesirable, no one said much of anything. Afterall, they weren't citizens, they owned nothing, the kids were stupid, they spoke in a strange language at times, and were called vermin by their Fuhrer. Why did they do this? There are several proposals, some having to do with Germany losing WWI, others having to do with how clever and resourceful the Jewish community was. But it's still under debate. But how they did it is clear.

**That's how it's done: especially if they are alienated, stripped of their citizenship; there are no courts to defend them, and you manipulate or own the media to convince the public they are vermin, dangerous criminals, and dead weight.
Much of what I briefly paraphrased here (I hope accurately), is from Daniel Goldhagen's book, "Hitler's Willing Executioners: Ordinary German's and the Holocaust." 1996.