Analyze/What would have happened if Adolph Hitler (1889 – 1945) had been born Jewish? He would perhaps have been a great defender of the Semitic cause, or perhaps he would have been ashamed of belonging to a people persecuted by “racists” who had a negative view of those who persevered in a religion that they described as anti-Christian, and that it was necessary to make disappear because it was the Jews who were responsible of the death of Christ.
But Adolph Hitler was not born Jewish. He is responsible for the detention and murder of more than six million Jews. A major tragic consequence of a growing feeling of contempt which already existed before him. Indeed, at the beginning of the 16th century, Jews were already considered by a section of the German Territory as people who were dirty by nature. Anti-Judaism which already existed was succeeded by anti-Semitism which was limited to favouring the popularization of the establishment of degrees of consideration on the basis of “race”. A scale of racial consideration established by racists who placed Jews at a lower level because Germans, favourable to radical far-right ideas, considered themselves to be people of a “superior race”.
The human being is only the product of the society in which he evolves. A society that has its beliefs, stereotypes and prejudices. A society where exaggerated patriotism can lead to deviances that the oppressor does not consider as such, because he is sure of doing good, when that is not the case. By denigrating and even look askance a people different from us, particularly on the basis of "race" which in fact is a pejorative term, we always run the risk of contributing to the emergence of individuals with a mentality to be deplored and condemned, in societies where respect for human dignity currently occupies a place of choice, unlike a bygone era where the degrees of retrograde and partisan considerations were limited to creating a scale of "subhumans" with whom it was especially necessary to avoid mixing because these racists, felt they had reason to think that the other was a danger to their prosperity, and that it was out of the question to allow them benefit from the same advantages as the Germans in particular.
After the failure of 1914-1918, the Germany of the third and last Emperor William II (1859 – 1918 [1941]) who was also the 9th Prussian king (1888 – 1918) must find a way to become a great power again. Among the reasons for the failures mentioned in particular by the racists, the presence of Jews in the German army appears in the foreground. Just as they were removed from several positions of responsibility in the country, they were also excluded from the army because they were considered "dirty individuals by nature". A legacy of erroneous Darwinist socialist thinking from the end of the 19th century which made people believe that human beings could be classified collectively as a “race”, and that each of them had distinct characteristics that had been transmitted genetically since the appearance of the first humans in prehistory. The main targets of this lamentable categorization were Jews, gypsies (Bohemians or nomadic people from Spain), the disabled, Soviet prisoners of war, Afro-Germans, political dissidents, Jehovas' Witnesses, homosexuals and marginalized people. They were all victims of an oppressive stigma that constituted an obstacle to social cohesion in a society where seeing someone who racists considered to be a member of an inferior race succeed was frowned upon because, they believed, his rise constituted a danger for German society and culture, which should not mix with that of naturally inferior individuals. A consideration without proven scientific basis which was the basis of the creation of the chaos materialized from 1925 by the German far-right party created in 1920. Indeed, before his appointment as German chancellor on January 30, 1933, Adolf Hitler published a work entitled Mein Kampf (my fight) in which he clearly explained his ambition for the systematic extermination of the Jewish people.
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The political plan or political ideology of the National Socialist German Workers' Party (NSDAP) was already in motion, and this work was already a clear signal of what would happen if its author took power. According to him, characteristics, skills, attitudes and behaviours were determined by contagious racial origins. The scenario predicted in the work was no longer a surprise since after January 1933 and in particular on April 7 of the same year, and September 15, 1935, two laws were introduced on strict segregation tending to avoid any contact between white German racists called "Aryans", and Jews. To these segregationist initiatives will be added, among other deplorable measures, the ban on mixed marriages, and the exclusion of Jews from a set of professions.
In 1937 the Buchenwald concentration camp opened its doors. Two years later, the start of the second serial of world shame. The rise of an imperialist empire that had time to rearm in order to subjugate its enemies and get rid of them also materialized in the capture of several European cities, and the construction of several concentration and extermination camps in Poland and more precisely at Auschwitz, Treblinka, Belzec, Sobibor, Majdanek, and Chelmno, where the installation of gas chambers made it possible to exterminate thousands of people every day, between 1940 and 1945, depending on the periods of use, with a view to committing premeditated mass murders of millions of innocent civilians, by individuals driven by a racist ideology which considered the Jews in particular as vermin.
No inferior individual was spared. Europeans, Jews, sick and healthy, rich and poor, Orthodox and converts to Christianity, the elderly, the young and even infants, everyone suffered the same fate, as long as the regime in place had something wrong to reproach you. Millions of people lost their lives due to boundless cruelty, which favoured the decimation of men, women and children in one of the most abominable ways possible because for Hitler, the Germans were part of a superior race called “Aryans” and destined to rule a very large empire throughout Eastern Europe. And it (the race) should especially not mix with inferior races such as Jews, gypsies, Africans and Slavs (peoples of central and eastern Europe: Bulgarian, Polish, Russian, Serbs, Slovak, Slovenian, and Czech).
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