How Did Nazism Contribute To The Rise Of Anti Semitism

The investigation assesses the Nazi regime from 1933 – 1945 in regards to the totality of their actions. In order to evaluate the Nazi regime on whether or not they were more evil than other genocidal regimes, the investigation evaluates how the Nazis controlled their country. The investigation will start in the early years of the Nazi regime in how they set up their totalitarian government and how they expanded their control. Then the Holocaust will be looked at for how the Nazis treated those they were exterminating. Accounts from soldiers and Jewish people who lived through the Nazi control will be mostly used to evaluate if the Nazis were more evil than other genocidal regimes. Two of the sources used in this essay, “The Liberation of Dachau” by Chuck Ferree, and “Fate did not let me go” a letter by Valli Ollendorff are then evaluated for their origins, purposes, values and limitations.

Antisemitism is the hostility or prejudices against Jews. Those with the intentions and actions to discriminate Jews are known as anti semitic. This began shortly after Hitler and Nazi Germany assumed power in 1933. At an annual party put on by the Nazis, they created a brand new set of rules called the “Nuremberg Laws”. According to the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, the Nazis started to “make good” on their pledge to oppress German Jews (ushmm.org). Eventually, Nazi party members announced their purpose. They wanted to segregate Jews from their society. With these intentions, the actions of the Nazi party that came after were cruel and inhumane. It was at this annual party that the start of the creation of these cruel laws intending to separate Jews.

Beginning in 1920 in the form of propaganda on the side of typical consumer items and lasting all the way until mid-1945, Nazi anti-Semitism had been a prominent characteristic of the Nationalsozialistische Deutsche Arbeiterpartei (National Socialist German Workers’ Party). Nazi anti-Semitism has often been considered an anomaly from the anti-Semitism that Europe had traditionally practiced, because of its deliberate execution of the Jewish Question and the horrific cruelty that took place during the Holocaust. It is no question that Nazi anti-Semitism was remembered for its unmatched hatred of the Jews; however, the influence from European anti-Semitism in the medieval times was heavy. The Nazis’ adoption of the “Jew badge”

Anti-Semitism is the discrimination against Jewish people as individuals and as a group. (A Brief History of Anti-Semitism) People may think that anti-Semitism began with Adolf Hitler but they are mistaken. There is so much evidence of anti-Semitism as far back as the ancient world. (History.com, n.d.) There are three examples of anti-Semitism in Europe prior to World War One that I will discuss.

Anti-semitism did not start with Adolf Hitler. Even though the use of the term goes back to the 1870's, there is evidence of cruelty towards Jews in ancient times. The ancient Romans destroyed the Jewish temple in Jerusalem and forced Jews to leave. The Enlightenment, during the 17th-18th centuries emphasized religious toleration. In the 19th century European rulers enacted legislation that ended restrictions on Jews.

The Holocaust is widely considered to be one of the darkest times in history- an abominable genocide with casualties measured in millions. With infamy comes inquiry, leading many to question and examine the exact motives behind the Nazi regime that killed masses. There are various factors to be considered when pinpointing the root causes of the Holocaust, among these being the historical and cultural hatred of Jews, the growing German unrest following WWI, and the Nazi Party’s ability to effectively utilize propaganda as to spread their doctrine. Despite this, anti-semitic ideas and propaganda spread before and during WWII were decidedly some of the most influential causes of the Holocaust.

To begin, the Nazi Party believed the Jews were engaged in a conspiracy for world domination. In addition, the Nazi Party believed that it was the Jews who controlled society and made the Germans suffer. According to annefrankguide.net, ”According to NSDAP (Nazi Party), Germany had lost the first war because of the Jews.” (“The Jews as Scapegoats” 1). Furthermore, Hitler and his followers believed that things would get much better for Germany if only the Jews were kicked out of the country. There were 500,000 Jews living in Germany in 1933 (less than 1%). That meant that it was hard to find or identify a Jew. In conclusion, the Nazi Party believed that the Jews caused all the problems in

The Nazi party came to power in 1933. Adolf Hitler, leader of the Nazi party, had become a major political figure in Germany during this time and was viewed as an appealing leader because of his attitude towards rebuilding a struggling Germany. In Stearns, it’s stated that the Nazi party had such a strong influence because of the stable and strong message that it projected which rallied the German citizens behind it. The Nazi party, after it came to power, began to focus on many different areas of their political agenda, one area being eradicating its Jewish minority. Adolf Hitler and the Nazi party believed that the Jews were at fault for all the hardships and problems that Germany was suffering from. In reality, anti-semitism was adopted by Nazi party and used as a political movement to keep the population distracted from other problems and the Nazi actions, and to instill a common passion among the German people which would help keep support for the Nazi party at high levels. Levi’s provides evidence of this distraction because of how well the Nazi’s kept the camps and what they were doing hidden. Levi states that “During the halts, no one tried to communicate with the outside world: we felt ourselves by now “on the other side”.” (Levi, Pg. 19) This statement reveals his sense of isolation from the rest of the world. The Nazi’s were taking the prisoners to barren lands far

In the 1930s and 1940s Anti Semitism was wide spread in Germany under the Nazi Government. The treatment of Jews in Germany during this time was extremely brutal and harrowing. The human rights abuses against Jewish people in Nazi Germany during the world war two periods are extremely well documented. Anti Semitism ranged from the outlawing of marriage between Jews and gentiles, the Nazi regime sanctioned destruction of Jewish homes and synagogue and of course the holocaust. The holocaust is one of the darkest moments in modern history where approximately six million Jews were killed in extermination camps in Poland which was occupied by Nazi Germany at the time. Anti-Semitism was deeply engrained in the policies, ideology and dogma of the Nazi party in Germany during world war two. Anti-Semitism was no new phenomena in Germany during the 1930s and 1940s. Anti-Semitism in both a religious and racial sense has existed and developed for over 2000 years across

Another reason for anti-Semitism’s great popularity was that, for a fact, people enjoy hate. They do not necessarily enjoy this emotion as they do “happiness,” but it brings about interest in an otherwise emotionless being. The emotion generated by Nazi propaganda and the show of the movement of the Holocaust that was presented to the Germans stood out against the drabness of everyday life in the Weimar Republic. This feeling was a splash of color on the subdued background of Germany (Zeman 13).

Anti-Semitism is a term used to describe a virulent prejudice against Jews. It played a significant part in the war and Hitler’s ability to carry out the final solution. Hitler was a good speaker and many public figures were Anti-Semitic, fear was instilled in the public with the gradual but assured removal of Jews from normal society, and an illusion that Jews were below them with the feeling of superiority in desperate times. The final solution could be implemented since the public was mainly apathetic, frightened, or were already influenced by the anti- Semitic environment in which the hatred of Jews became conventional.

They set out to convince people that pure Germans were superior and persecuted anyone who went against their view of a perfect society. Propaganda played a huge role in making the Nazi Party what it became to be. Propaganda

     The Nazi Party also known as the National Socialist German Workers’ Party was the leading political party in Germany during World War 2. The Nazi Party was originally the German Workers' Party, but after Adolf Hitler took power and began speaking of Anti-Semitism and promoting Nationalism and an Aryan Race it was renamed. The Nazi party took over Germany in 1933, they would later ban all other political parties. The first concentration camps were created for political prisoners. these camps would later turn into death camps for jews and other groups of people the Nazi party thought was unfit for new Germany. The Nazi party would also take away gun right from all groups they would later put in concentration camps

In 1933 Adolf Hitler was chosen as Chancellor of Germany by president Paul von Hindenburg. With this, the Nazi party came to power. Originally called the National Socialist German Workers party (Nazi for short), the Nazi party emphasized how Laissez-faire capitalism, economic liberalism, and democracy failed in government. The National Socialists stressed the importance of the impeccability of the German race. Although they had very determined ideas, The Nazi party began as a relatively small group in 1918. But coming into the 1930’s this was not the case. The widespread use of propaganda and radio broadcasting were instrumental to the rise of Hitler and the Nazi party.

It wasn’t the Nazi Party who initiated Anti-Semitism, for centuries Christians had persecuted the Jewish Religion and it’s followers. Hitler was influenced by the work of Charles Darwin who had a theory that, in a society or environment, the stronger races would dominate but the weaker races would struggle to survive. The Jewish community lost out by Hitler’s rule as SA members were instructed to terrorise individual Jews, damage Synogogs and boycott their businesses. Another group of Germans that lost out due to the rise and success of the Nazi’s was the Communists.