German hatred of Jews.

In the 19th century, religion played a less important role. Instead, thoughts arose about the differences between races and peoples. Thus originated the idea that the Jews belonged to a different people.

The defeat of Germany in World War I was for many Germans, and also for Hitler, difficult to accept. In conservative nationalist circles a theory called «the stab in the back» arises. According to this invented myth, Germany had not lost the war on the battlefield, but on her own ground, through treason. The Jews were accused by the nationalists of being generators of communism and those responsible for the German defeat.

Nazism is an authoritarian and totalitarian government, which rejects the democratic system, that is why it is against communism and was considered as a Jew unish conspiracy. In the war with the Soviet Union, starting in 1941, the idea of Jewish communism generated terrible consequences because the population and prisoners of war were brutally treated by the Germans.