Have you heard this story before?
One of my coworkers -male 44 years old, who got a middle degree education -diploma, said that Hitler persecuted Jewish people because they were descendants of one of 12 apostles Judas of Iscariot who betrayed Jesus.
I immediately asserted that it is against the historical facts, but later I said in front of him that it might have been one of notorious Hitler's or Goebbels propaganda.
Forged story might have been subject to gaining strong power among ordinary people.
No , I never heard this story. I wouldn't have believed it anyway. Hitler hated the Jews because he hated Jesus's blood line. I think he was on satins team. He did very evil things. Good question though...
ReplyDeleteJesus was from Jewish bloodline, and it's Jews -Pharisees that demanded him to be crucified. Hitler could have protected Jewish people because of this fact if he really hated Jesus's bloodline. This is in a word, inconsistent.
ReplyDeleteBloodline, eugenics are stupid idea. We are worthy because of our personality first. Bloodline is stupid but bloodtype is important in the case of operation.
I never heard this before, not even as propaganda, and I strongly doubt that the German people were sufficiently religious in the 1930es to listen to such crap.
ReplyDeleteThe excuse for persecuting the Jews in the Middle Ages and onwards was that "they killed Jesus". The real reason they kept being disliked was that they were different, set themselves apart, and in some ways behaved as if they thought they were better than other Europeans (our food is unclean to them, for instance).
They also tend to be hard-working people with a good sense of business, therefore it was easy for Hitler to blame the then wide-spread poverty in Germany on them.
Yes and yes!!
ReplyDeleteI don't know whether Hitler personally hated the Jews - very possibly he didn't care one way or the other. He needed a scapegoat, an enemy that the majority could share, and he used Jews, Gypsies, and Communists, to some degree also the "decadent", i.e. artists and intellectuals.
Not in the 1930es - possibly in the 1530es.
ReplyDeleteGermany is European, not a country prone to having religious hysterics as e.g. India.
It's an interesting theory that supports a 'strange story'.
ReplyDeleteYou see the history of Jewish people is, needless to say, dates back to much older than the age Jesus and Judas of Iscariot lived, so technically speaking it's not in the least likely that Judas of Iscariot is the ancestor of Jews.
But in fact it's to some extent very likely people start believing Jews are descendants of Judas of Iscariot because of its name. It's of course sheer coincident Judas also means Jews.
Christians might have started relating to the name of traitor and the name of ethnic people.
I heard Christians after the event done by Judas of iscariot started evading the use of name Judas in their kids though it was one of common names at that time.
Hitler didn't have to forge the false story when it comes to Jewish problem. He only had to make the most of fear Europeans have been held for a long time.
ReplyDeleteAs long as we use the common language and behave based on a common value standard, I often forgot what nationality we are and it's useless which nationality we are.
ReplyDeleteLet's make a difference other than language, value standard. Communication is much more important than being unable to communicate.
Perhaps not quite a coincidence. The ancestor of one of their 12 tribes was allegedly Jacob's son Juda, and that tribe may have been the original one, i.e. the Jewish people split up into more tribes when their number grew. Just a theory.
ReplyDeleteAs for that descendants belief, I have NEVER heard it mentioned, and I'm European. I'm totally convinced that NO European has believed such evident nonsense in the 20th century.
I'm sure they did. Just like you can't find one European born after 1939 who's named Adolf. OK, make it 1945 for Germany and Austria.
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