WWII And Anti-Semitism : Hitler And Hitler : The Catalysts Of World II

Robert S. Wistrich defined antisemitism as hostility and/or prejudice against the Jewish people or their religion of Judaism. Many people in today’s world instinctively associate antisemitism with Nazi Germany because of the mass genocide that took place. Hostility towards the Jewish people dates back thousands of years ago when the Roman Empire forced them away from their homeland that is now known as Israel. With the Jewish population forced from their homes they began to spread out all over the world and so did the prejudice against them. The Judaism religion was looked down upon in many parts of the world and people felt like it was their duty to treat the Jewish people with inequality. Antisemitism took a different turn when statesmen begin to use it in their campaign to gain the citizens support.

Anti-Semitism was going on before World War II, but the war enhanced the discrimination. Death camps were slowly being built all across Poland and Germany in the early 1930’s leading up the war. Nuremberg Laws were created in 1935 and the defined Jewish people by “blood” and called for an order to separate Hitler's views of “Aryans” from “non-Aryans”(Anti Semitism). Six million Jewish civilians were killed. After the war, anti semitism continued all the up to modern day history. This is still a problem the world is dealing with.Throughout history there have been many massacres and violent riots against Jews (Anti Semitism). Most of the time, these acts are encouraged by government personnel. The government has gotten so involved with anti semitism throughout Europe, and around the entire world, that their have become political groups based on it. Towards the end of the 19th century, Germany, Austria, and France all created political parties centered around anti semitism. The history of these anti semitic countries will continue to shape the future of the

Hitler had shown unwillingness to tolerate the Jews and once he was appointed Chancellor, he started to take elimination measures like deportation, forced emigration, and isolation to enforce his belief. He took advantage of Germany’s weakness in World War One, then used it as an opportunity to blame the Jews for Germany’s defeat. Hitler’s political party was the largest political party in Germany thus allowing them to draw very large crowds to gatherings. He had very good oratory speeches with hand gestures that easily manipulated people to adhere to his views. Hitler constantly targeted the Jews because he knew people believed in these speeches. People in Germany were already anti-semitic but Hitler made it worse by constantly consuming them in his speeches. From the way he spoke about the Jews, we could clearly see the possibility of genocide. Hitler wanted Germany to be free of any humans that anyone other than his ideal master race so he personally selected bodyguards to be part of a group called the SS. Hitler was responsible for ordering the SS to carry out the extermination of anyone who did not fit this ideal. The SS handled oppositions using force and as a result of which people were forced to give into the idea of violence. Sometimes people purposely went along with this Holocaust ideal due to the fear of getting killed. These terrors allowed the holocaust occur

Hitler believed that the German people were part of an 'Aryan race,' a superior group that should be kept pure to fulfill their mission of ruling the world. He felt that the Jewish people were 'sub-human,' when in actuality they were virtually the same as his 'Aryan race.' Not only did Hitler have a personal hatred toward the Jewish people, but he also blamed them for 'stabbing Germany in the back' after Germany's defeat in World War I. Hitler used them as scapegoats because they were a minority and were easy to put the blame on. 'Historians agree that the Holocaust resulted from a confluence of various factors in a complex historical situation. That anti-Semitism festered throughout the centuries in European culture is centrally important; the Jews were (and are) a minority civilization in a majority environment. In periods of crisis, instead of searching for the solution of

At the end of WWI in 1918, Germany’s economy was in ruins. There were very few jobs, and bitterness began to take over the country. According to the text, “Hitler, a rising politician, offered Germany a scapegoat: Jewish people. Hitler said that Jewish people were to blame for Germany’s problems. He believed that Jews did not deserve to live.” (7) This was the birth of Antisemitism--prejudice against Jewish people. Europe’s Jewish people have always been persecuted due to their “different customs and beliefs that many viewed with suspicion.”(7) Hitler simply reignited the flames, and a violent hatred was born.

     Merriam-Webster OnLine defines antisemitism as "hostility toward or discrimination against Jews as a religious, ethnic, or racial group"(Blah, Blah, Blah). Antisemitism is a little more

During the holocaust, the germans saw the jews as a “tainted race”, and saw them inferior to themselves. They also sought to kill off the jewish bloodline completely.

When discussing The Holocaust, our minds tend to jump straight to the genocide of the Jewish populations of Europe. This is because of the approximate 11 million people killed during The Holocaust; roughly 6 million of them were Jews. Many people are now left to wonder why Hitler and the Nazi Party specifically targeted the Jews for genocide. The main reason was because the Nazi Party took the idea of nationalism to an extreme, new level. Hitler also thought the Jews were responsible for Germany losing World War 1. Hitler may have been influenced during his childhood on the ideas of anti-Semitism. According to A Teacher’s Guide to the Holocaust, the opposition and discrimination of Jews is known as

As many of you know between, 1933 and 1945, the Holocaust ruled by Adolf Hitler and the Nazi Party, killing 6 million Jews and other racial groups. Jews were easily a scapegoat for the Germans. They blamed the Jews for the defeat in World War 1 and for causing so much economic crisis. Hitler was prejudice against the Jews because he wanted a dominance race, which he called Aryan, ideally people with blue eyes and blonde hair. He believed that Aryan people were the strongest race and the Jews were an inferior

During World War II, Germany was occupied by a group of people who were called Nazis. Their ever so evil leader was a fascist dictator with the name of Adolf Hitler. Hitler had this sick and twisted belief that his race of Germans was the most superior race on the planet, and that the people of Jewish heritage and race were inferior. For that matter he thought that all races were inferior, but especially the people of Jewish decent. Hitler got the idea in his mind that we need to make the world a better place and make it only full of a race that is superior, and the way that he was going to do that was to exterminate the Jews and other people deemed inferior. This is called the Jewish holocaust. Of the nine million Jews recorded living in Europe at the time,

Anti-Semitism – Discrimination against or hostility and hatred towards Jewish people, whether they be religiously or ethnically defined.

Antisemitism was the beginning and the cause of the Holocaust. The term antisemitism was actually created by a German Journalist by the name of Wilhelm Marr, created to give a name for the hatred for Jews (Ezard). Antisemitism fueled the Holocaust, the German hatred for the Jews was there even before Hitler as described by historian Robert Gellately: “What the Nazis actually did was to unshackle and thereby activate Germans’ pre-existing, pent-up antisemitism” (qtd in Ezard). One of the major decisions Hitler made inspiring this hatred was the creation of the Nuremberg Laws in 1935, these laws made Jew a completely different race, and created Aryan into a superior race (Ezard). These laws made it official that the Jews were a lesser “race,” giving another excuse for the people to wreak hatred upon them. If the Germans had tried to stop the Hitler and the Nazis the Holocaust couldn’t have happened (Mckay). If even half the Germans had resisted the damage would have been much less drastic.

Anti-Semitism is known as the hostility and prejudice towards the Jewish religion and Jewish people. Known as anti-Judaism, Jews have been targeted and still are targeted for their beliefs and practices. Jews have been discriminated against for years on end and are often referred to as “the oldest hatred”. In certain times and places worldwide, Jews have been evolved into rules of political, economic and social isolation and have had times of exclusion, degradation and attempted extinction. The degradation of Jews did not begin in the Nazi era, but much earlier and certainly did not end at the end of The Holocaust.

Anti-Semitic means discrimination toward Jews just because they are Jewish. Hostility towards Jews dates back to ancient times; from the days of the bible to ancient times ,Jewish people have been criticized and pushed just because they have a different religion and did not fit in with everyone else. The rise of Christianity greatly increased the hatred towards Jews. Instead of just considered outsiders Jews were now seen as people who rejected Jesus and crucified him. By the middle ages Jew were considered to be barely human and they were called Christ killers. Jewish people were forced to live in the ghettos, they were accused of poisoning the wells and rivers in times of major disease epidemics. In the 19th century thing started to get a little easier for Jewish people as there was a decline in Christianity and a rise in the Jewish belief. But later on in World War two they became Germany's justification seeking to kill every Jew. between 1939 and 1945

Fascism values “neither … the possibility nor the utility of perpetual peace” (Doctrine of Fascism). This belief, which simply means war is good, caused WWII and the Holocaust to be horrific. This was evident when Hitler invaded Poland. Fascism had influenced Hitler to believe that war was essential for Germany’s growth because it would allow them to gain more land and slaves. Germany had previously taken over both Austria and Czechoslovakia with no punishment from the other European nations (even though the Treaty of Versailles, which ended WWI, prohibited Germany from conquering land). This gave Hitler reason to believe that if he invaded Poland in a massive blitzkrieg attack, there would be no consequences. However, this time the other European countries were not going to allow Germany to gain more power and two days later Britain declared war on Germany (Murphy 5/10). Since fascism influencing Hitler’s beliefs caused the invasion of Poland, which started WWII, fascism indirectly was responsible for WWII -- a war whose brutality can be seen through the millions of people who died as a result. Fascism’s positive view of war also led to Japan attacking the U.S. When the Japanese began expanding into the Pacific, the U.S. did not trust what they were doing and told them to stop. This made the Japanese think that the U.S. was standing in