Anko Chang
Hist. 5
1/27/2015
TA: JP Mercado
Role of Anti-semitism in the influence of the Nazi Party and it’s policies from 1920-1938
Anti-Semitism is hostile discrimination against the Jews religiously, racially, or ethnically. Before 1945, anti-semitism is often connected with nationalism, social darwinism, and racism. This notion started in the 19th century, and is most profoundly known during the Nazi racial segregation period of the German Empire during the Holocaust. The idea of discrimination against jews started in the Medieval where Jews were discriminated and persecuted as strange people. However, due to the fact that perhaps it is one of the most obvious factor for the Nazi policies during the Holocaust after Hitler rise power; there were few inspections of the role of anti semitism before 1933: during the end of the Weimar republic and Hitler appointed as chancellor. People just presume Anti-Semitism was Hitler’s exponent,
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For example, the German-Nationalist Protection and Defence Association made of professional workers, civil servants, and teachers was able to establish themselves under the slogan “Germany for German”(Sieg, 327). The political, social and psychological condition with economic pressure established the dislike for German social elites, which at the time were mostly Jews. Next, most of these party members are members of the Protestant Church. There’s no doubt these Catholic are against the rituals of the jews for religious benefit. In sermons, the priest employ anti-semitic visuals and express prejudices. This results is around 20 million of it’s 60 million population during the 1920s are Catholics or Lutherans believer, leaving the secularization of Judaism as the believer only took up around 0.86% of the population. Especially they came to support the Nazi Party, as the party showed violence against the Jews and anti-semitic