Question

Why did Jews remain the worst sufferers in nazi Germany?

Answer 1

Answer:

. Propaganda is a specific type of message directly aimed at influencing the

opinion of people through the use of posters, films, speeches etc. The Nazi

regime used language and media with care and often to great effect. They

used films, pictures, radio, posters, etc. to spread hatred for the Jews.

(i) Once in power, the Nazis quickly began to implement their dream

of creating an exclusive racial community of pure Germans by

physically eliminating all those who were seen as “undesirable”.

(ii) Jews remained the worst sufferers in Nazi Germany. They were

stereotyped as ‘killers of Christ and usurers’. Until medieval times,

Jews were barred from owning land.

(iii) They survived mainly through trade and moneylending/ They lived in

separately marked areas called ‘ghettos’. They were often persecuted

through periodic organised violence and expulsion from land.

(iv) All this had a precursor in the traditional Christian hostility towards

Jews for being the killers of Christ. However, Hitler’s hatred of the

Jews was based on pseudo-scientific theories of race, which held

that conversion was no solution to ‘the Jewish problem’. It could

be solved only through their total elimination