Why did the third Reich target the jews?
It is important to note that although the Jewish people were the largest group to be targeted, they were not the only ones. Many ethnic groups, homosexuals, mental patients, anyone deemed not worth of the racial standards adopted by the Third Reich became a target. After the Treaty of Versailles, which ended WWI, Germany was made to pay huge war reparations to the Allied Nations. In the ensuing years, Germany’s economy became a wreck, and German unemployment rose dramatically. Hitler had already attempted to seize power in 1923, in what became known as the Beer Hall Putsch. It was a miserable failure, but the trial for Treason that followed allowed Hitler a public platform in which to promulgate some of his radical ideas. During his imprisonment, he wrote Mein Kampf, (My Struggle), the theme of which was a purported Jewish attempt to gain control of the world through various means. Mein Kamp describes Hitler’s life and process in which he became Anti-Semitic, though no one really knows
