Why and How did Hitler persecute the Jews?
After World War I in Germany, the Allies created a treaty that placed a burden of heavy reparations on the Germans. In order to pay these reparations, the German government printed more money, causing inflation, that eventually made the money worthless. The currency was no longer worth much, and Germany was driven into an economic depression. In this economic depression, the people of Germany became desperate and destitute, creating a situation ripe for the rise of a leader promising economic reforms. Hitler used this poverty and desperation to rise to power, promising economic reform. He also used the Jewish people as scapegoats for the poverty of the Germans. The choice of Judaism as a scapegoat may have been fueled by Hitler’s childhood, where he had an abusive father of Jewish descent. Already, German scientists had been experimenting in eugenics. In these experiments they had created a doctrine that amounted to elimination of the unfit. They had already created methods of “elimina
