Anti-Semitism is the hostility towards or discrimination against the Jews as a religion, ethnic and racial group. This was used as a propaganda tool to gain support for Hitler and the Nazi Party. Anti-Semitism did not only occur in Germany but had been an idea that was engraved in Europe for centuries. The Jews had suffered from religious persecution and discrimination for centuries and were frequently blamed for different kinds of things. After WW1, Hitler joined the NSDAP (the National Socialist German Workers’ Party), because of his strong and persuasive speeches, he quickly became the core of the party. Through giving inspiring speeches from the party, he noticed that propaganda against the Jews persuaded audiences and voters like a strung cord to believe in his beliefs and ideas. Hitler would often mention that the Jews were responsible for Germany’s defeat, recovery and the ultimate poison to contaminating their “pure German blood lines”.
The Nazis used a lot of myths that were anti-Semitism which many of the myths had been around for more than thousands of years. Including the idea of the “master race” / “pure race”. Hitler stated that Germany should be a nation of pure-blooded “Aryans”, they believed that the Jews had contaminated their race.
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During the rise of Hitler was the time of the Great Depression, many individuals experienced poverty, individual loss, etc. At this period of time, people were more willingly to be influenced. The influencing factor (Jews) lead the Germans to overcome their hardships, or made it easier because they had a motivating goal and a believable because of their own hardships. The more people who were suffering from hardships, the easier Hitler and the Nazi Party could oversimplify a certain thing and provide an answer for the