Main arguments:

Hitler’s legacy is highly exaggerated and often wrong. Hitler’s policies and beliefs are not as evil or unfounded as most people think. Arguably, the Allies should have fought with him as an ally, instead of an enemy.

First counterargument:

Hitler systematically killed six million Jews. He is an evil person.

Rebuttal 1:

Hitler had good reasons to hate the Jews as a group back then.

Reasoning:

Many of the primary forces behind economic exploitation and far-left political influence, especially Communism, in the Weimar Republic (post-WWI Germany, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Weimar_Republic) were dominated by Jewish individuals. It is important to note that Jews made up less than 1% of the population in the Weimar Republic (http://www.ushmm.org/wlc/en/article.php?ModuleId=10007052), yet their influence was far-reaching.

The NS didn’t hate the Jews “just because”. The reasoning behind the National Socialist’s actions is seemingly never presented in history lessons (excuses like “they were a good scapegoat” are hardly a true representation of the actual situation at the time). Jews have been expelled from regions many, many times throughout history (even as recently as 2014:

You don’t get forcibly removed from a region as a group so many times in history “just because” or because “they make good scapegoats”. There are numerous examples of why rulers throughout history might not have been fond of Jews, and later in this document you will see why these preconceptions have continued all the way to the modern era.

The NS were never secretive about the reasons for their anti-Jew campaigning. The NS government even overtly spelled out their reasoning in English pamphlets such as “Jewish Domination of Weimar Germany”, which analyzed pre-NS census population statistics:

1). The main arguments behind the NatSoc’s dislike of the Jews are related to:

- The fact that many Communist leaders and promoters were Jewish, and often had ties to the Soviets

- Extensive post-WWI Jewish immigration into Germany, and the tendency for these Jews to live strictly in their own closed, nepotistic groups in cities (especially Berlin) instead of properly assimilating into German society

- Extreme overrepresentation of Jews in top positions of medicine, the press, education, theatre, and art in Weimar Germany, who promoted their own (often communist, politically far-left, and/or sexually-charged) principles instead of those of the German people at large

- Extreme overrepresentation of Jews in top positions of banking and business profiteering, who were highly exploitive of the German people and the German economy for their own interests

Some quotes from notable historians of the time period give a better picture of the situation:

“Jews were especially visible in private banking in Berlin, which in 1923 had 150 private Jewish banks, as opposed to only 11 private non-Jewish banks. They owned 41% of iron and scrap iron firms and 57% of other metal businesses. Jews were very active in the stock market, particularly in Berlin, where in 1928 they comprised 80% of the leading members of the stock exchange. By 1933, when the National Socialists began eliminating Jews from prominent positions, 85% of the brokers on the Berlin Stock exchange were dismissed because of their ‘race’. At least a quarter of full professors and instructors (at German universities) had Jewish origins. In 1905-6 Jewish students comprised 25% of the law and medical students. In 1931, 50% of the 234 theatre directors in Germany were Jewish, and in Berlin the number was 80%.”

—Sarah Gordon, 1984, Hitler, Germans and the Jewish Question

“In the all-important administration of Prussia, any number of strategic positions came into the hands of Hebrews. A telephone conversation between three Jews in Ministerial offices could result in the suspension of any periodical or newspaper in the state. No one who lived through the period from 1919 to 1926 is likely to forget the sexual promiscuity that prevailed. Throughout a town like Berlin, hotels and pensions made vast fortunes by letting rooms by the hour or day to baggageless, unregistered guests, throngs of child prostitutes outside the doors of the great Berlin hotels and restaurants. Most of them (the night clubs and vice-resorts) were owned and managed by Jews.”

—Edgar Mowrer, 1939, Germany Puts the Clock Back

Communism:

Many major proponents of Communism were Jewish. For example, Karl Marx was Jewish, and many of his relatives were rabbis (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Karl_Marx#Early_life). Leon Trotsky, born as Lev Bronshtein, was Jewish (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leon_Trotsky#Childhood_and_family_.281879.E2.80.931895.29). Vladimir Lenin had Jewish heritage and married a Jewish woman (http://content.time.com/time/world/article/0,8599,2077413,00.html; http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vladimir_Lenin#Childhood:_1870.E2.80.9387).

Other influential Communists from the time who were Jewish include:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grigory_Zinoviev (“Zinoviev is best remembered as the longtime head of the Communist International and the architect of several failed attempts to transform Germany into a communist country during the early 1920s.”)

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moisei_Uritsky

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lev_Kamenev

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yakov_Sverdlov

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grigori_Sokolnikov

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ber_Borochov

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abraham_Leon

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vladimir_Herzog

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hugo_Haase

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adolph_Joffe

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Erich_M%C3%BChsam

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gustav_Landauer

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Willi_M%C3%BCnzenberg

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yakov_Yurovsky

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kurt_L%C3%B6wenstein

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ernst_Bloch

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gy%C3%B6rgy_Luk%C3%A1cs

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/B%C3%A9la_Kun

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maxim_Litvinov

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ilya_Ehrenburg (whose role as a Soviet propagandist and supporter of the mass murder of Germans is discussed at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Talk%3AIlya_Ehrenburg)

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Genrikh_Yagoda (Genrikh Yagoda is known for serving as the director of the Soviet secret police and overseeing the show trials that would kick off the Great Purge; he also mercilessly utilized gulag labor, during which many of the laborers died.)

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alexander_Parvus

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Naftaly_Frenkel

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Isaac_Steinberg

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Solomon_Lozovsky

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lazar_Kaganovich

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gy%C3%B6rgy_Luk%C3%A1cs

Each person’s Jewish ancestry is clearly stated in each individual’s Wikipedia article.

In 1918-1919, just after WWI, a major Communist revolution called the November Revolution took place in the Weimar Republic. The revolutionaries carved out a portion of the country and formed it into a short-lived Communist state. Eventually the movement was repressed by the government and military, both of which were still struggling from WWI. Nearly every leader of the movement was Jewish; both presidents of the Communist state were Jewish.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/German_Revolution_of_1918%E2%80%9319

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spartacist_uprising http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bavarian_Soviet_Republic

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rosa_Luxemburg

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kurt_Eisner

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Karl_Radek

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ernst_Toller

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gustav_Landauer

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leo_Jogiches

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eugen_Levin%C3%A9

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paul_Levi

Vladimir Putin has stated that the original Soviet movement in Russia was mostly Jewish (http://www.haaretz.com/jewish-world/jewish-world-news/1.530857, http://www.timesofisrael.com/putin-first-soviet-government-was-mostly-jewish/).

The Swedish-Jewish banker Olaf Aschberg financed the Bolsheviks in Russia and became head of the first Soviet international bank.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Olof_Aschberg

This by no means demonstrates that every Jew at the time was a Communist, or vice versa. However, there was a definite Jewish influence in Communist leadership at the time, and this was noted by the NS. (The rise of Communism as a popular worker’s movement and why the National Socialists were so strongly against it are discussed later.)

Finances and banking:

The Jews were active in moneylending throughout European history. Catholics and Muslims discouraged or forbade usury (interest) on loans for religious reasons (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Usury), allowing Jews to dominate moneylending (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Court_Jew; https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_banking#Court_Jew). Even the Magna Carta, drafted in England in 1215 (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Magna_Carta), included provisions offering protection to the families of deceased individuals who owed interest to Jews (http://www.bl.uk/magna-carta/articles/magna-carta-english-translation - sections (10) and (11). Notably, Jewish law forbids making loans with interest to other Jews (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Loans_and_interest_in_Judaism).

The nature of Jewish lending practices are spelled out in the Torah (https://www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/jsource/Bible/Deuteronomy.html):

15:6 “For the LORD thy God blesseth thee, as he promised thee: and thou shalt lend unto many nations, but thou shalt not borrow; and thou shalt reign over many nations, but they shall not reign over thee.”

23:19 “Thou shalt not lend upon usury to thy brother; usury of money, usury of victuals, usury of any thing that is lent upon usury: 23:20 Unto a stranger thou mayest lend upon usury; but unto thy brother thou shalt not lend upon usury: that the LORD thy God may bless thee in all that thou settest thine hand to in the land whither thou goest to possess it.”

28:12 “The LORD shall open unto thee his good treasure, the heaven to give the rain unto thy land in his season, and to bless all the work of thine hand: and thou shalt lend unto many nations, and thou shalt not borrow.”

28:13 “And the LORD shall make thee the head, and not the tail; and thou shalt be above only, and thou shalt not be beneath; if that thou hearken unto the commandments of the LORD thy God, which I command thee this day, to observe and to do them.”

Unfortunately, for many European nobles and rulers, the allure of Jewish usury and banking to increase money supply in the short-term, for wars or other means, was irresistible. The case of Edward I is a good example (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edward_I_of_England). Along with other English kings, Edward I benefited greatly from Jewish tax farming and banking (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edict_of_Expulsion#Buildup_to_expulsion), even though he was a considered a pious Roman Catholic ruler. Resentment from the church and the public led Edward to attempt to curtail Jewish influence through various means, including trying to make them convert and assimilate, but all of these methods failed to make a difference (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edward_I_of_England#Finances.2C_Parliament_and_the_Expulsion_of_Jews).

Finally, with assurances that seized land and debt payments would go to the king, Edward expelled the Jews from England in 1290 (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edict_of_Expulsion#Expulsion).

Jews continued to dominate banking well into the modern era as well. The Rothschilds are a Jewish banking dynasty that has dominated world finance for centuries (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rothschild_family; http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rothschild_banking_family_of_England). Their members have produced mantras such as the following:

"I care not what puppet is placed upon the throne of England to rule the Empire on which the sun never sets. The man who controls the British money supply controls the British Empire, and I control the British money supply."

- Nathan Mayer Rothschild in 1815 (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nathan_Mayer_Rothschild#Legend)

“Let us control the money of a nation, and we care not who makes its laws.”

- A “maxim” of the House of Rothschild (http://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Money#Misattributed)

A political cartoon from 1894 demonstrated the power that the Rothschilds held over world finance, especially through national debts (http://vulgararmy.com/post/386748134/the-english-octopus-it-feeds-on-nothing-but):

The Warburg family is another Jewish banking dynasty. Max Warburg was one of the most notable members, active in Germany before WWII (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Warburg_family; http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Max_Warburg). Paul Warberg was a major supporter of the US Federal Reserve system, and served as president of the Federal Reserve advisory board (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paul_Warburg).

Jacob Schiff was one of the most prolific bankers and lenders in the pre-WWI and interwar eras, especially for pro-Jewish causes, and for causes against pre-Communist Russia (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jacob_Schiff). Historical entries on Wikipedia mention the role he played in funding the Bolsheviks in Russia, especially Trotsky (https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Jacob_Schiff&diff=636870007&oldid=632984091#Kuhn.2C_Loeb_.26_Company; https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Jacob_Schiff&diff=562603951&oldid=562601130#Legacy).

The Goldsmid, Mocatta, and Oppenheim families were also prominent and influential Jewish banking families (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Goldsmid_family; http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mocatta; http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oppenheim_family).

Moses Montefiore (1784-1885) was an influential Jewish banker active in Britain (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moses_Montefiore).

In America in the midst of the Civil War, general Grant had to issue an order expelling Jews from military areas because of their corrupt profiteering (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/General_Order_No._11_(1862): “During his campaign for the presidency in 1868 Grant claimed that he had issued the order without prejudice against Jews, but simply as a way to address a problem that certain Jews had caused.”).

With the role that bankers and financial interests played in causing the Great Depression and Germany’s economic problems after WWI, it’s perhaps understandable why the NS, in their criticism of corrupt international finance, related criticism of Jews to that topic as well.

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