Anti-Semitism In The Late 19th Century

In the late 19th Century a German theorist by the name of Wilhelm Marr created the term “Anti-Semitism”, which is a prejudice term against people who are Jewish. Even though he was the first to officially give hatred for Jews a name, Jews were hated way before then. Hatred for Jews started in the early days simply because the did not believe in the Christian principle. The rest of Europe believe the Jewish people to be the folks who killed Jesus Christ. Wilhelm made the word “Anti-Semitism” because he wanted to put his hatred for his detestation into scientific form so he could spew his hateful dialogues to convince people of his new impartial way of seeing Jewish people. This was the first time people started to see modern Anti-Semitism as race instead of religion. Young scholars like Hitler learned this rhetoric at their universities and started to created negative ideas about Jewish people in Europe in order to achieve their goals.

Jewish people were the main receivers of the Nazi discrimination, for most of the Germans problems. The Nazi party try to come up with stereotypes to try to differentiate between German and Jewish family. They wanted to show their people, that their is a difference between the races visibly and biologically. In order to prove that, Jewish people will always be different, no matter if the acted or talked like Germans. The Nazi created propaganda to brainwashed the rest of their country. In order to spread their propaganda, according to the State of Deception: The Power of Nazi Propaganda “The book burning coincided with a wider push to establish control over the instrument of mass communication, beginning with the press” (Bachrach 67). The Nazi eliminated all media outlet so they will be able to spew their