The document discusses several reasons for anti-Semitism and the persecution of Jews in Germany. It notes that Nazi propaganda aimed to promote negative stereotypes of Jews to portray them as less than human. Hitler himself expressed in a 1919 letter that he viewed Judaism as a racial matter and that the ultimate goal was the removal of Jews. Despite attempts to help Jews flee Germany, most countries did not accept Jewish refugees. This indifference allowed the German efforts to annihilate Jews through concentration camps and gas chambers to ultimately murder around six million Jews.