Ideology Nazi Germany

Adolf Hitler and the Nazi party exploited an already antisemitic Europe, creating a Jewish scapegoat for the problems of Germany, to not only rise to power but justify the intentionalist ideology for the persecution of the European Jewish community during the Holocaust. Antisemitism in Europe had caused the stigma and persecution of the Jewish since early civilisations. The Nazional (Nazi) party in 1933, rose to power promising to solve the problems of a nation still reeling from its losses in WW1. The scapegoating of the Jewish race from the beginning of the Nazi party's campaign revealed an intentionalist ideology for a society without the Jewish race. The Nazi party alienated and persecuted the Jewish in the horrific holocaust campaign. During this persecution, propaganda was used by the government to justify the holocaust to those who had not just turned a blind eye.

Evidence of antisemitic acts have been uncovered from as early as 1300 B.C.E, leading to the persecution of the European Jewish community during the holocaust. The hatred of the Jewish religion is thought to originate from the economic privileges and differences in beliefs that the religion entails. After the diaspora, many Jewish communities were governed under more favourable laws than that of others in the community. Due to lesser trading laws, the Jewish were able to trade at higher rates of interest and therefore gained wealth, Henry Makow, an english conspiracy theorist, claiming that "the poorest Jew was immeasurably better off than the serfs" (Makow, 2003, online) . This lead to a jealousy and hatred of the jewish race for their profession, Lazare a British anarchist before the holocaust stating that "the usurer was hated as much as, if not more than, the murderer of christ." (Lazare, 1894, online). Leading up to the holocaust, in 1899- 1939, anti- Semitic acts recorded in Germany were 2.5% per million people, five times higher than other powers such as Great Britain,...