Causes of the Holocaust … They can be called, justifying the premises. But not one of these reasons, and all taken together, can neither justify nor explain why it became possible. Why did the Holocaust happen? Why is the so-called "cultural nation" calmly and measuredly killed 6 million people. For humanity, this will forever remain beyond comprehension.
Historians, sociologists, political scientists, philosophers, religious scholars, theologians, psychologists - dozens of scientists are struggling to unravel the question "what are the causes of the Holocaust." Perhaps they can give the answer closest to the truth - then - and - if they can ever unite. Now, the causes of the Holocaust are considered by each of them from their own narrow point of view.
Questions, questions, questions .
Is anti-Semitism the main reason? But maybe the “strange” interpreted economic “necessity” is an asymmetric response to the countries that won the First World War? Or a perverse understanding of medical research? Or is the fault of the people themselves, departing from their God, thereby violating God's chosen people? Or was the Holocaust a consequence of the struggle against the Bolshevik Communists? But maybe it’s all simpler: the evil will of one psychopath who seized power and nurtured a shameful irrational hatred found support from people like him - like-minded in the party, with a psychologically related sadistic pathology?
In any case, the ideologists and performers of the Holocaust for some reason thought that they had justified themselves before their descendants at least twice: by adopting the Nuremberg laws in 1935 and fixing them in 1942 in the program plan of genocide at the Wannsee conference.
However, none of the war criminals convicted at the Nuremberg and Israeli trials - from Kaltenbrunner to Eichmann - was helped by referring to any of the adopted laws, orders, doctrines, decisions or decrees requiring the extermination of Jews, Gypsies and other peoples, since a simple human and difficult legal concept is a “criminal order”.
Anti-Semitism as a premise of the Holocaust
Irrational hatred of the Jewish people has been rooted in the land for centuries. The origins of this hatred can be found in the dense crowds of people, subjected to the belligerent influence of the first Christian priests, and much, much more. This hatred has long been an archetype of attitude towards foreigners in general, and, not like everyone else, in particular. Therefore, there is no need to talk about any special German anti-Semitism. Many times in any of the centuries since the birth of Christ, here and there, from the darkness surfaced, and now emerge, now vicious with the anger of the physiognomy of the fighters for the purity of the nation: whether Spanish, American, Russian, Ukrainian, Polish, Hungarian, Lithuanian, Arab Islamists and bring them numbers. When their critical mass accumulates, then waiting for the pogroms becomes a routine for the Jewish people.
After the First World War, and before the Second, the bell of anti-Semitism for German Jews sounded many times, from time to time becoming unbearably loud. But the turning point for the whole history of mankind - January 30, 1933 - the day when President Hindenburg appointed Hitler as Chancellor of Germany, went almost unnoticed for them.
However, Hitler’s initiated Nuremberg racial laws, which deprived Jews of their civil rights, and the massacre under the beautiful name of Kristallnacht, sobered many of those who still inevitably believed in humanity and common sense.
Why, then, did German Jews not massively leave the “brutalized country” while it was still possible? There are also a number of reasons for this.
The new German government really painstakingly squeezed Jews out of the country, but at the same time did not intend to let them go "for nothing." All kinds of bureaucratic obstacles were arranged from which it was necessary to pay off and not everyone could afford it. Those who could often work out the ordinary philistine adaptability, as well as the irrational hope for the best, and the rational belief that their social status is still unshakable. It was the Jews who remained in Germany and Austria who became the first settlers of methodically arranged ghettos and concentration camps - and the first victims of the Holocaust.
Economic reasons
At the end of World War I, Germany was in the deepest depression and economic crisis. In the presence of a wealthy and successful layer of citizens with Jewish surnames.
The concept of the constant and ever-increasing joy of being and national unity, formulated by Goebbels, urgently needed to find finances for arranging a universal holiday of life and a single enemy for the nation, around which one could unite.
The decision chosen by Goebbels was, as some Russian political scientists now believe, genius simple: the enemy was appointed close and conceptually odious - the Jews. After the appointment of such an enemy, the question of replenishing the state treasury and personal accounts of the Nazi elite in Swiss banks, was decided by itself. No one was looking for or demanding complex solutions.
Expropriation of considerable funds, bank deposits, property, jewelry, enterprises, shops, farms, etc. among the disenfranchised Jewish population - legalized robbery in broad daylight, plus on a gigantic scale of extortion - farmers traveling abroad, extremely corrected the German economy. And the loyal “purebred Aryans” received practically all of the above and much more for nothing, which remained after the “disappeared” in nonexistence.
