question about nazis?

Question

Don't take this as thinking i am a nazi, anti semite, or anything else like that, but i was curious
Are all Nazis anti semitic? is hating jewish people an essential part of the Nazism or was everyone already anti semitic?
Again i repeat, I AM NOOOT A NAZI! this is just a question.

Answer 1

Nazi: member of the NSDAP the National Socialist German Worker Party from 1922-1945, included a lot of people who had no opinion on Jews or were married to Jews and Jews themselves. Only later did Hitler use the party and the government to broadcast his propaganda to defame the Jews.

So no, not all Nazis were anti-semitic, but many were.



The term "anti-Semitic" (or "anti-Semite") usually refers to Jews only. It was coined in 1879 by German journalist Wilhelm Marr in a pamphlet called, "The Victory of Germandom over Jewry". Using ideas of race and nationalism, Marr argued that Jews had become the first major power in the West. He accused them of being liberals, a people without roots who had Judaized Germans beyond salvation. In 1879 Marr founded the "League for Anti-Semitism".



Anti Jewish sentiment is sadly as old as the Middle Ages (see wikipedia for details) and still prevalent in every country on this planet.



Neo-Nazi: term for present day right wing extremists who imitate the Nazis and are anti-semitic as well as anti-all foreigners.

Answer 2

From what i have read and heard, I don't think it was SPECIFICALLY Antisemitism. I think it was just anti-ANYBODY and EVERYBODY else! The horrible atrocities exercised against the Jewish people got the most publicity because it claimed the most unfortunate, innocent victims.

There were other victims, too. The eastern European Gypsies, for instance, were targets of Nazi genocide just like the Jews.



That said, however,, it HAS occurred to me to wonder if part of their anti-Jewish campaign might have been due to the large Jewish presence in the banking systems of Europe at that time.

The oppressive, early, version of the Catholic church that ruled during the "dark ages" (yeah, those same guys who brought us the Spanish Inquisition) didn't like competition from other religions, so they placed insane restrictions on their practitioners. Using as a lame excuse, the ridiculous argument that the Jews were responsible for the crucifixion of Jesus, the ruling church imposed all sorts of impossible conditions on their lives. Jews were forbidden to own property or even work for a Christian employer in some parts of Europe. In a socio/political climate where it was alkmost impossible for them to survive, since they could not own PROPERTY, about all they COULD own was MONEY, itself. Over the centuries, this situation evolved into them gravitating toward the professions of money-lending, and then banking.

So the Nazis' campaign against them could well have originated with the classic hatred of the rich by the poor, and the desire to seize the money and power some of these people had - and THEN it escalated to a more generalized racial hatred. So, to cover the original motivation of greed, disguise and sell the idea as wholesale antisemitism, they set out to destroy ALL Jews, rich OR poor.



Some of this is fact, and some is my own theorizing, but in light of what we know DID happen, it makes sense.

Answer 3

In my little knowledge on this theme, the only thing I know is that the Nazis hated the jews for many reasons, and they were considered as a pest. There is a video the Nazis made called "The External Jew", (there are some videos that contain English subtitles) after watching it you will see how they saw the jews.