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What were Adolf Hitler's reasonings and strategies behind killing the Jews?

The Holocaust was genocide of the Jewish population, which occurred during WWII. The Nazi party in Germany was responsible for the wipe out of the Jews. The party’s main leader, Adolf Hitler, did everything in his power to rid the Jewish people from society. He was completely against them and everything that they stood for. Many ask, “What were Hitler’s reasonings for killing the Jews? Why did he dislike them so much, enough to kill them by the millions? and what tactics were involved in the killings?” No one quite knows the real answers to these questions, and they will never be answered directly. However, findings about Hitler’s past could be possible explanations to these questions. Hitler had a rough childhood growing up. His father would beat him whenever he disobeyed his parents. He loved playing games that involved acting out fight scenes from wars. Both of these childhood pastimes deal with violence, which could have very well been a cause for Hitler’s plan to kill the Jews. Hitler also lost both of his parents as a child. The death of his parents could have had an effect on him as well.

Most believe that Hitler had always had a strong hate towards the Jewish population, which was most likely the case. He considered them inferior to himself because of their beliefs and he also blamed them for the loss in WWI. Hitler was against socialism and equality, both of which the Jewish population favored. He enlisted a fear that they would take over the world. To Hitler, everything about Jewish people was a disgrace.

There were many strategies that Hitler created in order to carry out his “mass murder”. It all began when he became head of the Nazi party and the dictator of Germany. He built up his army and turned them against the Jews as well. He first took away their citizenship, segregated them, burned down their homes and synagogues and then finally placed them into his very own concentration camps. These were extremely brutal camps that the Jews were forced to live in for a great amount of time. All Jews who were living under Nazi super valence in the camps were forced to shave their heads and get tattoos on their arms upon entering. These camps were not fun and games. The Jews worked long hard hours for no pay and rarely received food or water. Millions died from starvation and the spread of disease. Others died from being shot or gassed in chambers. The bodies were then burned in crematories. Death marches were above all, the most brutal treatments. The Nazis would force the Jews to walk for endless days in the freezing cold winter. If anyone bent over for a quick break or stopped along the way, they were instantly shot. These were some of Hitler’s tactics that he used against the Jews when they were in the concentration camps. Hitler’s Holocaust consisted in the murdering of over six million Jewish people. It is considered the largest “Mass Murder” in history. At the end of all of this, Hitler committed suicide. Many believe he did this because he did not want to face the consequences for his actions.