# Why do many people repeat the urban legend myth that Hitler was part Jewish? **URL:** \ **Category:** Cecil's Columns/Staff Reports\ **Created:** [May 6, 2012, 1:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-do-many-people-repeat-the-urban-legend-myth-that-hitler-was-part-jewish/621064 "2012-05-06T13:29:53Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 15\ **Page:** 4
**Author:** ![GermanicPride](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/7bcc69/32.png) [@GermanicPride](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GermanicPride)\ **Post date:** [May 8, 2012, 9:59am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-do-many-people-repeat-the-urban-legend-myth-that-hitler-was-part-jewish/621064/61 "2012-05-08T09:59:02Z")
> [@Blake](#): > > And that removes any doubt. Waiting? ---
**Author:** ![Scumpup](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ce73a5/32.png) [@Scumpup](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Scumpup)\ **Post date:** [May 8, 2012, 10:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-do-many-people-repeat-the-urban-legend-myth-that-hitler-was-part-jewish/621064/62 "2012-05-08T10:06:24Z")
> [@Larry\_Borgia](#): > > Hitler was clearly a Fop man. We may need a poll here. ---
**Author:** ![KarlGauss](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/karlgauss/32/3713_2.png) [@KarlGauss](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/KarlGauss)\ **Post date:** [May 8, 2012, 10:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-do-many-people-repeat-the-urban-legend-myth-that-hitler-was-part-jewish/621064/63 "2012-05-08T10:20:49Z")
> [@Dewey\_Finn](#): > > I’m curious; what other myths are there? Well, not many people know it, but the Fuhrer was a terrific dancer. ---
**Author:** ![gamerunknown](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/6bbea6/32.png) [@gamerunknown](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gamerunknown)\ **Post date:** [May 8, 2012, 10:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-do-many-people-repeat-the-urban-legend-myth-that-hitler-was-part-jewish/621064/64 "2012-05-08T10:29:38Z")
Actually, it’s pretty interesting. I heard holocaust deniers went into a gas chamber with Zyklon B in order to demonstrate its lack of effectiveness and it didn’t kill them: they’d inadvertently stumbled on the fact that the Nazis used an altered form of Zyklon B, though I’m not certain what it was treated with. Nazis didn’t usually refer to the fact that they were executing prisoners of war, instead they used less callous terms like “processed” (whatever that may be in German). > [@GermanicPride](#): > > there is no shame in it Then why is affiliation with a Nationalist Socialist party and the wearing of their various accoutrements banned in Germany? > [@GermanicPride](#): > > German and Germanic are two different things, Germans are Germanic but there is more Germanic peoples than just Germans. > [@GermanicPride](#): > > Jews don’t belong in Europe no, it’s astonishing there have their own Jewish state and yet only 41% of the world population live there that’s less than half of the Jewish world population, irony or what? They say Germans don’t have a sense of humour… What? You started it! ---
**Author:** ![gamerunknown](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/6bbea6/32.png) [@gamerunknown](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gamerunknown)\ **Post date:** [May 8, 2012, 10:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-do-many-people-repeat-the-urban-legend-myth-that-hitler-was-part-jewish/621064/65 "2012-05-08T10:36:40Z")
Oh, totally forgot: > [@GermanicPride](#): > > nothing is black and white This is a sentiment I’d never expect from a Nazi. Is there anything objectively wrong with racial miscegenation? ---
**Author:** ![Dissonance](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/85f322/32.png) [@Dissonance](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dissonance)\ **Post date:** [May 8, 2012, 10:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-do-many-people-repeat-the-urban-legend-myth-that-hitler-was-part-jewish/621064/66 "2012-05-08T10:48:30Z")
> [@GermanicPride](#): > > Waiting? Yes, we are all awaiting your banning. Hopefully we won’t have too much longer to wait. ---
**Author:** ![C\_K\_Dexter\_Haven](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/b2d939/32.png) [@C\_K\_Dexter\_Haven](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/C_K_Dexter_Haven)\ **Post date:** [May 8, 2012, 11:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-do-many-people-repeat-the-urban-legend-myth-that-hitler-was-part-jewish/621064/67 "2012-05-08T11:24:02Z")
> [@GermanicPride](#): > > Face palm, does it hurt you? > Most certainly, refute me. > Show me one single document linking Hitler to the alleged Holocaust, signed or written! > Show me evidence Jews were gassed - Auschwitz gas chamber shown to people now is fake and reconstructed after the war. > Show me tests proving that any Zyklon B was used in any of the gas chambers (besides the ones for crematoriums and to disinfect the clothing of prisoners). > Show me evidence six million were killed. > Show me evidence the Nazis had a direct policy to exterminate Jews. > Show me evidence where the Nazis even mention a gas chamber or gassing. > Tell me why it’s illegal to deny an alleged historical ‘FACT’ in so many countries…hiding the legend by laws. The evidence is massive, and much of it is in the records that the Nazis kept themselves. There are plenty of photographs, there are plenty of eye witnesses, there is plenty of written records. However, those who are self-blinded by their own [del]stupidity[/del] political views claim it’s all a lie. “Show me” is saying that your eyes are closed. You do yourself (and your cause) no service by denying historical reality. The devil-theory of history – that all the ills of the world are cause by some group – is designed to avoid having to deal with real troubles. It’s way easier to deal with the outsider “devils” than to face and try to solve problems. It was way easier for Hitler and his cronies to blame the Jews for all of Germany’s economic problems and defeat in WWI, than to actually try to take responsibility and address those problems. You seem to do the same thing, assuming that the evils of the Nazis are really all lies promoted by some world-wide conspiracy. Nutso. EVEN IF you deny the murders, your excuse (I assume that you follow party-line) is that all those deaths were caused by disease and starvation. I counter: IF that were true (which I don’t credit for one moment), then the Nazis are still responsible for setting up camps in which disease could run rampant and untreated. Regardless of the method of extermination, your political ideas were responsible for the murder of millions. > [@GermanicPride](#): > > it’s astonishing there have their own Jewish state and yet only 41% of the world population live there that’s less than half of the Jewish world population, … For that matter, your “Germanic peoples” have their own state (Germany) and what percent of the Germanic peoples live there? There are huge German/Germanic populations living Austria, America, Argentina, … Astonishing. But, of course, there’s no point arguing with a wall. ---
**Author:** ![Blake](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/a9a28c/32.png) [@Blake](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Blake)\ **Post date:** [May 8, 2012, 11:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-do-many-people-repeat-the-urban-legend-myth-that-hitler-was-part-jewish/621064/68 "2012-05-08T11:44:27Z")
> [@C\_K\_Dexter\_Haven](#): > > However, those who are self-blinded by their own [del]stupidity[/del] political views claim it’s all a lie. It’s now acceptable to call people stupid in CoCC? ---
**Author:** ![FinnAgain](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/finnagain/32/12500_2.png) [@FinnAgain](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/FinnAgain)\ **Post date:** [May 8, 2012, 12:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-do-many-people-repeat-the-urban-legend-myth-that-hitler-was-part-jewish/621064/69 "2012-05-08T12:09:11Z")
Well, our Neo-Nazi OP didn’t claim it was _all_ a lie, so Dex’s comment can’t be referring to him. ---
**Author:** ![Gyrate](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gyrate/32/3588_2.png) [@Gyrate](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gyrate)\ **Post date:** [May 8, 2012, 12:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-do-many-people-repeat-the-urban-legend-myth-that-hitler-was-part-jewish/621064/70 "2012-05-08T12:24:00Z")
> [@handsomeharry](#): > > The moustache! The moustache! > [@GermanicPride](#): > > Hey, some people still sport it! 🆒 Like Robert Mugabe! Who has \*totes \*redeemed it, by the way. ---
**Author:** ![Peter\_Morris](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/peter_morris/32/359_2.png) [@Peter\_Morris](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Peter_Morris)\ **Post date:** [May 8, 2012, 12:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-do-many-people-repeat-the-urban-legend-myth-that-hitler-was-part-jewish/621064/71 "2012-05-08T12:35:33Z")
GP, there’s something I don’t understand. Please explain the following. Why does it matter to you if Hitler was part Jewish? Why do you object to the idea? Is there something wrong with it? Explain how being part Jewish is a bad thing. ---
**Author:** ![Fear\_Itself](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/fear_itself/32/19637_2.png) [@Fear\_Itself](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Fear_Itself)\ **Post date:** [May 8, 2012, 12:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-do-many-people-repeat-the-urban-legend-myth-that-hitler-was-part-jewish/621064/72 "2012-05-08T12:55:48Z")
> [@GermanicPride](#): > > German and Germanic are two different things, Germans are Germanic but there is more Germanic peoples than just Germans. > > No most certainly not but it’s interesting to find that how people think Germans are just from the country we call now Germany, this is not the case. > > Jews don’t belong in Europe no, it’s astonishing there have their own Jewish state and yet only 41% of the world population live there that’s less than half of the Jewish world population, irony or what? Why is it astonishing that most Jews don’t live in Israel? Is it astonishing that most germanic people don’t live in Germany? Do germanic people belong in France? Britain? America? Irony, or what? ---
**Author:** ![FinnAgain](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/finnagain/32/12500_2.png) [@FinnAgain](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/FinnAgain)\ **Post date:** [May 8, 2012, 1:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-do-many-people-repeat-the-urban-legend-myth-that-hitler-was-part-jewish/621064/73 "2012-05-08T13:07:03Z")
Nah nah nah nah, nah nah nah nah, heeeeeeaaaaaaaay, shaaaalom. ---
**Author:** ![Gyrate](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gyrate/32/3588_2.png) [@Gyrate](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gyrate)\ **Post date:** [May 8, 2012, 1:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-do-many-people-repeat-the-urban-legend-myth-that-hitler-was-part-jewish/621064/74 "2012-05-08T13:14:43Z")
Haben Sie gehort das Deutscher’s banned? Mit der bing Mit der bang Mit der bing bang bing bang boom… ---
**Author:** ![TubaDiva](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/tubadiva/32/507_2.png) [@TubaDiva](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TubaDiva)\ **Post date:** [May 8, 2012, 1:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-do-many-people-repeat-the-urban-legend-myth-that-hitler-was-part-jewish/621064/75 "2012-05-08T13:28:10Z")
OP is banned now so let’s close. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-do-many-people-repeat-the-urban-legend-myth-that-hitler-was-part-jewish/621064.md?page=3)