Problem description:
For example, why did Germany kill Jews at the second stop? Is it because of religious contradictions, interest-driven, or other reasons?
Analysis:
As soon as the Nazis came to power, they persecuted the Jews crazily. There are deep-seated reasons why this amazing barbaric act of returning to primitive times was unimpeded in Germany in the 1930s. So, what caused such a brutal persecution campaign against Jews in Germany? Generally speaking, the following points are important:
The persecution of Jews is the product of strong racist thoughts under the background of the decline of the international status of the German nation since the late Middle Ages.
Since Britain and France became a unified nation-state in the late Middle Ages and emerged in Europe, Germany is still in a fragmented state of about 300 small countries. This state led to many failures of Germany on the international stage: the Thirty Years' War made Germany "artificially fixed at the level of chaos and weakness in the Middle Ages". Napoleon conquered the German states. Bismarck rose after reunification, but it was still a restricted country after the defeat of the First World War. On the contrary, Germany's real life has bred a strong racist thought, which holds that the Germanic nation is excellent and dominates the world, while the non-Germanic nation is decadent and can be trampled and enslaved. For example, when Prussia was defeated and humiliated by Napoleon in Jena, Ficht, a leading figure in German ideological circles, immediately published a book with strong racist spirit against the Germanic nation on the podium of Berlin University, praising the greatness of the Germanic nation to arouse the rise of the people: "Their language is the purest and unique. Only under their influence can history open a new era. " Hegel, who followed closely, also unveiled the excellent banner of the Germanic nation because he hoped for the reunification and rise of Germany: "The era of Germany will eventually come, and its mission will be to revitalize the world." Along with this racism and Germanic Excellence, non-Germanic peoples, especially Jews, are inferior and decadent. Ficht said in "To the Germanic Nation": "The Latin nation-especially the French-and the Jews are decadent races." These racist thoughts of German thinkers strongly influenced German citizens like ghosts, and gradually formed a social thought. Hitler also strengthened his determination to eradicate Jews because of the defeat of World War I. After attending the hospitalization for injuries in World War II, he went to Berlin for sightseeing and found lazy people everywhere. He recognized them as Jews. What he saw along the way was: "The office is full of Jews. Almost every shop assistant is Jewish, and every Jew has become a shop assistant ... During the period of1916-1917, almost all production work was under the financial control of Jews ... Jews plundered the whole country and put it under their own rule. " Plus, after the November Revolution, * * * signed an armistice agreement with China. That is, he believes that the failure of Germany is caused by the "invisible enemy" of Jews and Marxism. "Germany was not defeated on the battlefield, it was behind a domestic traitor." Komatsu blog-excellent article collection
Therefore, the belief of attacking Jews and "November sinners" was firmly established in his heart. In short, Germany's division, weakness, defeat, etc. * * * led German thinkers to awaken the Germanic nation with the superiority of Germanic race-a negative effect, of course, in an attempt to offset the bad luck of reality with spiritual Excellence. The constant bad luck in reality has strengthened this theory of spiritual superiority, thus becoming a universal national concept, making Germany a fertile ground for racism, so that in Germanic areas, racism and punishment of Jews have reached such a level that it has not only become a social trend, but anyone who wants to make achievements in politics must be an anti-Semitic. For example, although the mayor of Lugar was kind to Jews in private, he was an active anti-Semitic in public. As long as everything is brought into the anti-Semitic track, we can gain national recognition and proceed smoothly. For example, Hitler said in Mein Kampf: "Fate has treated our country well. It gave Russia to Bolshevism, and "this actually means giving Russia to the Jews." Hitler classified anti-Bolshevism into the category of anti-Semitism, rather than anti-Semitism into the category of anti-Bolshevism, which fully shows that anti-Semitism in Germany has a deeper social foundation than anti-Bolshevism. The Nazi party's crazy persecution of Jews grew up in this fertile soil of anti-Semitism in Germany.
The crazy persecution of Jews is the result of the vicious development of anti-Semitism in German history.
Anti-Semitism in Germany did not begin with Hitler. When Hitler was still in middle school, anti-Semitic newspapers were distributed everywhere. The fact is that anti-Semitic activities have been serious since the end of the Middle Ages. Martin Luther was a fanatical anti-Semitic. He hoped that Germany would expel the Jews, and claimed that when they were sent away, they would be confiscated "all cash, jewels and gold and silver", and they would also "set fire to Jewish synagogues and schools, tear down their houses, and let them board in stables or stables like gypsies ... in pain and imprisonment. Because they keep crying to God about our bad. " Martin Luther's influence on German life, whether good or bad, is unprecedented and unprecedented. Through his missionary work and excellent Bible translation, he not only created modern German, but also formed a passionate Germanic nationalism. Ficht, Hegel, Trick and German spiritual leaders all followed Martin Luther's ideas, thus improving the spirit of the Third Reich. Especially the direct spiritual founders of the Third Reich, such as Houston and Stuart Chamberlain, conveyed a crazy racism to the Germans. Hitler inherited the ideas of these predecessors and further developed them, turning anti-Semitism into actual racial struggle, which he believed was the main driving force of human development. He said: "The original culture of human beings must be based on using low-level humans instead of taming animals ... So the original culture came from the place where Aryans conquered low-level peoples and forced them to obey their own will after meeting them." For the creation of high-level culture, the existence of low-level human beings is one of the most basic prerequisites. In this way, in Hitler's place, punishing Jews became a safeguard for human progress. He said: "the blood flow of mixed blood and the resulting decline in racial level are the only reasons for the decline of old culture." Because mankind will not perish because of the failure of war, but because it has lost its resistance. And this resistance can only be maintained in pure blood. In this world, anyone who doesn't belong to a good race is scum. "Especially the Jews. Sweeping Jews is certainly a "great" action of human progress. From a historical perspective, it can be seen that the Nazi's crazy persecution of Jews is obviously the inevitable product of the historical development of German anti-Semitism. Hitler found an original way to practice this idea.
Fighting for living space is the deep economic root of anti-Semitism.
The contradiction between production and market has always been a key problem that must be solved in the development of modern Germany. Therefore, living space has become the goal pursued by countless generations of Germans. William II's "We also want a place under the sun" directly expresses this problem. He tried to solve this problem by launching a world war, but the result made the problem more acute: Germany's overseas colonies were carved up by "mandate rule" and its territory shrank. However, Germany's economy rose rapidly after the Daowei plan and became a European economic power. 1929 During the great crisis, countries set up tariff barriers and formed currency groups, which made Germany's economic penetration abroad desperate. It is against this background that Hitler issued the cry of "exchanging German swords for German plowed land and German daily bread", and other nationalities must make room for the Germans. "Nature has not left the future ownership of this land to any country or race. On the contrary, this land exists for those who have the right to possess it. " Komatsu blog-excellent article collection
Liuhuisong.blogchina "We must dare to unite our people and their strength and embark on this road that can guide our people from the limited living space to a new land ... The national socialist movement must strive to eliminate the imbalance between China's population and regions". For the survival space of the Germanic nation, Hitler advocated aggression and expansion abroad, and advocated cruel punishment for non-Germanic Jews at home. Racial laws that exclude Jews fully show that this struggle has the characteristics of seizing living space from Jews. 1933 when the third Reich was founded, the Nazi party stipulated that Jews were not allowed to run for public office, serve as civilian officials or engage in news, broadcasting, agriculture, education, drama, film and other work. 1934 Jews were driven out of the exchange, and later Jews were forbidden to engage in medicine and commerce. This kind of deprivation of Jewish right to work is obviously a struggle for living space. The Nuremberg Law of 1935 deprived Jews of their civil rights, which was the most thorough manifestation of this struggle. The economic crisis has given this kind of competition a good opportunity, which has been widely recognized by Germanic society. Ordinary Germans spontaneously put up "No Jews allowed" signs in front of bakeries, butcher shops, milk stations and food stores. Hitler used the economic crisis to launch his anti-Semitic movement in an all-round way. It is also from the anti-Semitic racial struggle that countless Germanic operators have made considerable profits because they have no competitors. A large number of unemployed Germans have jobs again (including other means of economic recovery, of course), so that workers often joke: "At least under Hitler's rule, there is no freedom to starve." The Third Reich also received a large number of blood transfusions. About 60-80% of Chimak's property was transferred to Aryan chaebol and Hitler's party leaders. Schacht, general representative of Hitler's war economy, said: "Some of our armaments were paid with the money of our political enemies (mainly Jews)."
The non-nationalization characteristics of Jews provide good conditions for the anti-Semitic movement.
Since the Jews were expelled from their homeland, they have been scattered all over Europe without a unified area. This non-national feature determines that Jews lack the ability of racial self-protection. This also provided favorable conditions for the Nazis to persecute Jews crazily. Because no matter how brutally the Nazis punished the Jews, there would be no regional ethnic problems. As a result, the cruelty of persecuting Jews intensified. Hitler's personal experience provides a way to imply anti-Semitism.
Hitler's method of punishing Jews was unique and cruel. This cruel means is a clone of the cruel reality of his personal life. William Scheler, the author of The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich, said: "Hitler had a sadist (and vice versa)." In other words, his sadism comes from his abuse. It's true. Hitler's early life was grim. Family assets are meager, and father is willful. During my study at school, my grades were very poor, and I was often left out by teachers and classmates. I had to transfer schools many times and failed to graduate from middle school. 1909- 19 13 These four years are "the most sad period in his life". His parents died and he came to Vienna alone. At that time, hunger was my faithful companion, and it was inseparable from me, sharing happiness with me ... My life was a long-term struggle with this heartless friend. It was this kind of encounter that developed Hitler's ruthlessness and stubbornness. Life has made him deeply realize the horror of terror and the "importance of mental and physical terror to individuals and the masses". So he also treats everything with terror, and treats Jews with terror. Germany gave Hitler countless horrible days, and Hitler doubled it back to Germany. Jews suffer the most.
To sum up, the persecution of Jews is not the product of a single factor, but the result of the comprehensive action of personal, social, historical and realistic factors. Draw lessons from history and take precautions from all aspects so that historical tragedies will not repeat themselves.