Showing posts with label Hitler. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Hitler. Show all posts

Friday, 12 April 2013

Adolf Hitler, Jewish and Unknown Facts-Why Hitler killed Jews?


First of all, Adolf Hitler was not a German. Though he spoke German, he was from Austria. It is said that it is not unknown who is Hitler's father. There is a doubt that he actually might be a Jew.

In Austria, Adolf Hitler had many good Jewish Friends. In the process of growing up, it is said that many Jewish friends helped him. Adolf Hitler wanted to become an artist but he was mediocre. When Hitler went to an Arts School, he was rejected there and advised that he can not be a good artist.

There is a line of argument that Hitler thought that Jewish people did not want him to be Artist as the board of admissions was all Jewish. So, there could be that Hitler wanted to take this revenge in its worst form.

It is said that when Adolf Hitler attacked Austria, he ordered to destroy completely his native village where he was born and spent his childhood. The story is that he feared that his father might be a Jewish one and he hated his father, the Jewish and any attachment to his father and father's home.

As a mode of justification of killing of Jewish, Hitler developed the "Aryan Race Theory". Hitler considered that the Germans - Aryans were the Pure Race and the people with the best race. As per Hitler, Jewish were the people with inferior race. Jewish Race did not deserve to live and Hitler blamed Jewish for the defeat of Germany in World War I (WWI). These are the explainable but possible reasons why #Hitler committed the most heinous crime in Human History. For Hitler, the Aryans were the Master Race and Jewish People did not fit into his "Concept of Master Race".


As per the report on Daily Mail, an English News paper, it might be that it was convenient for Hitler to put a blame on Jewish. The Daily Mail Report says, quoting a history book, "At the time almost half of all German private banks were Jewish owned, the stock exchange dominated by Jewish stockbrokers, almost half of the nation’s newspapers were Jewish run as were 80 per cent of chain stores. It became fashionable to decry the loss of the war on Jewish financiers."

It is said that Hitler was always against Communism and blamed Jews for Russian Revolution under Lenin in the decade of 1910s. Many Communist philosophers had Jewish Links.

Therefore, there were possibly many reasons why Hitler was against Jews. But, whatever the reasons might be, he indulged in undeniably the most atrocious crimes in Human History.

Friday, 5 April 2013

Adolf Hitler, Jewish, Nazism and Communism- Some thoughts - I

As a part of my research work in Human Rights, I got chance to visit different places in Europe. In a period of long time, I visited various Jewish Synagogues, Jewish Museum and Holocaust Museum in different parts of Europe.

When I was in Nepal and India, I learned that Hitler was a bad guy. Adolf Hitler wanted to take revenge of Germany's defeat in the First World War (WWI) and grabbed power by raising German Nationalist Slogans. We read that Adolf Hitler put blame on Jews for the loss in WWI and killed many of them. We learned these things but actually could never feel how painful the Past might have been to People of Europe and Jews in particular.

Surprisingly, in India, when I was studying, some of my classmates reviewed the book "Mein Kampf" supposedly the biography of Adolf Hitler. I read that Hindu Nationalist's Party Rastriya Swayam Shewak Dal ("RSS") in India considers Adolf Hitler a disciplined nationalist leader which is unbelievable. I never read Mein Kampf and to my knowledge, a German State Government holds Copyright over this book and does not allow it to publish in Germany. That means it is as good as banned in Germany. When I was in India, I could see that "Mein Kampf" was freely published, sold and distributed in every book shelves and it is surprisingly one of the most sold books.

The Problem is that in the eastern part of the World, we do not understand and realize the havoc created by Nazism practiced by Adolf Hitler.

In my student days, I also got a chance to read a book called "A Diary by a Fourteen Years Old Girl". The book was prepared by collecting the diary of Anne Frank who had to hide along with her parents as they were all Jews. In the diary, Frank writes how the whole family had to struggle to survive. Imagine a pain of a young kid which is only 14 years. The book sheds light on what Adolf Hitler was trying to do - by killing Jews and spreading antisemitism - in history, to be termed as "holocaust". Then, there was a movie called "Life is Beautiful" which I watched to understand more about Jewish's sufferings. That was my understanding of Adolf Hitler and his policies of destruction.

Later, when I started travelling to Europe, I could visit Jewish Museum and Synagogue in Budapest (Hungary), Jewish Museum in Amsterdam (The Netherlands), The Anne Frank Museum in Amsterdam (The Netherlands), The Dachau Concentration Camp in Munich (Germany), The Topography of Terror  Museum (Berlin, Germany). These all visits enlightened me. They told the same story in different language, from different viewpoint, through various audio - video, contemporary news papers of those times, through image, arts, photography. In silence, these huge materials speak the same language - the fear, trauma and the annihilation of human civility and modernism. It is undisputed fact that Adolf Hitler murdered Six Million People and mostly Jews. Then, We must ask another question- Why? Why Adolf Hitler Killed so many Jews? 

I will write what I think about it in my next post. Before I conclude, there are laws in many countries punishing the denial of holocaust. Holocaust denial is explicitly or implicitly illegal in 17 countries: Austria, Belgium, Canada, Czech Republic, France, Germany, Hungary, Israel, Liechtenstein, Lithuania, Luxembourg, Netherlands, Poland, Portugal, Romania, Slovakia, and Switzerland. It is also to be noted that Adolf Hitler did not kill only the Jewish people. Hitler targeted Communists, Homosexuals, Jipsy, Roma and Sinti, Russian Prisoners of Wars etc. However, the killing of Jewish has outnumbered the others and has gained many significance and received wide attention.

Some of you my ask a question. Was Hitler a Communist?Actually, No. Hitler was never communist. In fact, he killed many communists in Germany and elsewhere. Later, Hitler breached the pact with Communist Russia and Communist Russia (then USSR) had to fight against Hitler. In my Berlin Trip, in the Museum called "Topography of Terror", I saw a pamphlet of 1930-40 where Hitler blamed Communist for fire in Reichstag. Therefore, we see that Hitler was anti-communist and killed many communist People also.

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