Creation of a Scapegoat

Hitler used his hate for the Jewish to blame them for the loss of the war and the fall of the monarchy in Mein Kampf. He describes them as the inner disease that caused Germany’s collapse and loss of the war. He blames the Jewish for the gap between the rich and poor, their newspapers causing a rift between people, and for poisoning the health of the national body and German purity.

He first blames the Jewish for the widening of the gap between the rich and poor. This poverty and unemployment made the people discontent and made life unstable. He blames the Jewish businessmen for leading to the creation of this gap and because of their influence on economics. Hitler continued his attack on the Jewish by saying that theirs newspapers “attacked the state and the government and stirred up large sections of the people against one another (Hitler 1999, 244).” He goes on to say that Germany must work to maintain the pure blood of the German and the Aryans. He called the Jewish the counterpart to the Aryan. He also associates the Jewish with Marxism, which they used to hide

These chapters in Mein Kampf seem to be part of Hitler’s propaganda against the Jewish and making them the scapegoat for Germany’s problems. He pointed out many of reasons he believed led to Germany’s loss in the war and the fall of the monarchy and blamed the Jewish for them. He made an enemy out of them. Through this he dehumanized them by calling them “parasites” and a “disease.” He even stated he wanted to remove them from Germany. Mein Kampf was an essential tool in convincing people, that followed him, that the Jewish were responsible for Germany’s problems and that they were a parasite that must be removed from Germany.