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    concentration camp, and how they are doing long after the Holocaust. Each of these five stories has a similar beginning that starts with their family having a normal happy life till the Germans come into their towns and turn their world upside down. Then antisemitism begins to arise throughout their communities. Their neighbors and Germans treat them like

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    Mein Kampf

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    Mein Kampf  is commonly known as Hitler 's justification and plan to wipe out the entire Jewish race. His irrational thoughts about Jewish people are seen throughout the text. Throughout Hitler 's book he displays his over whelming feelings of antisemitism and Aryan superiority. Hitler, in order to justify his hatred of

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    It’s the early 1930’s, innocent, defenseless, Jewish children are being slaughtered by the thousands, while probably a mile away the German Nazi children were being taught to be slaughterers. It’s no surprise that the German Nazi children and Jewish children were treated very differently growing up in Nazi Germany, from the education to future employment not one aspect was the same except the fact that both groups were very limited in their options. Growing up as a German child rather than a Jewish

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    German Children

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    Germany as future soldiers. Schools were used to spread Nazi ideas to the German children by removing certain books from the school and using textbooks that made children love and support Hitler, obedience to state authority, militarism, racism, and antisemitism. German children were deceived at school of how wonderful Hitler was and schools contained the way of making Germans that would support Hitler no matter what. Hitler Youth prepared them for the roles in the military and the German occupation bureaucracy

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    The definition of antisemitism means prejudice against or hatred of Jews. In 1933 the Nazis rose to power and the party ordered anti-Jewish boycotts, destruction of Jewish property, and created many laws to prevent Jewish German citizens from doing certain things. In 1935, the Nuremberg Laws were created and they decided to separate the "Aryans" and the “non-Aryans,” which led to a “racist hierarchy” in Germany. While this was happening, many Germans tolerated the hate crimes and did nothing to stop

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    Destiny Corbitt Shawn Underell The Holocaust 21 February 2016 The Holocaust The holocaust is one of the memorable events in history and it is important to know some of its causes and how it was carried out. The Holocaust is a controlled torture that killed roughly six million Jews by the Nazi government, led by Adolf Hitler. Apart from the Jews, other groups considered inferior or anti-establishment such as Poles, Romans and gypsies were also killed. There were several reasons for these grisly murders

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    internal to the country, those practicing the Jewish faith had their identities miniaturized to showcase religion as the sole factor distinguishing them from Germans, creating the race of the ‘Jew’. Reimagining identity through miniaturization, antisemitism shaped the state’s definition of the race, as Sen (7) relays the contentions of Sartre that “the Jew is a man whom other men look upon as a Jew; it is the anti-Semite who makes the Jew.” Articulating how reimagination of ‘Jewish’ identity was a

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    should take it or not. In this case, a Jewish boy named Edgar Aftergood, took an opportunity to escape the ghetto in Poland. During the time when Hitler rose to power, Germans started blaming the Jews for the national problems. This was known as antisemitism, the hatred towards Jews. During that time, Edgar started to get beaten up in school, for being and looking like a Jew. In 1934, Edgar’s parents decided to head back to Warsaw, Poland where his parents where from. When they got to Warsaw, Edgar’s

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    humility? Revenge. If a Christian wrong a Jew, what should his sufferance be by Christian example? Why, revenge. The villainy you teach me I will execute, and it shall go hard but I will better the instruction. (Act III, Scene 1). In the play, antisemitism is widespread across the city as Christian majorities mistreat the Jewish minority, which is unjustified and unfair. In Canadian society, equality, antiracism and freedom of religion are common. Where in Shakespeare’s society, these were almost

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    Scapegoats In Germany

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    For Instance, the Germans thought that the Jews had killed Christ and were responsible for large unfortunate events in Germany. These accusations had always been floating around, and the Nazi Party had only increased Jewish hate, however, Jewish antisemitism and their use as scapegoats had always been around. For example, during the Black Death, the Jews were blamed for poisoned the wells and being immune to the Black Death; unfortunately, the scapegoating of Jews continued, changing people's ideas

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