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Analysis Of Before The Final Solution By William Hagen

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n the article “Before the "Final Solution": Toward a Comparative Analysis of Political Anti-Semitism in Interwar Germany and Poland," writer William Hagen proposes that in the pre-World War II political anti-Semitism, Germany and Poland shared interests in advancing and modernizing Christian middle-class elements in the industrial-capitalist order at the cost of a Jewish population. Hagen states the liberal interwar economy crisis allowed the role of a totalitarian state became a tool for spreading anti-Semitism in Germany. However, Hagen argues that central and eastern European Jews faced the threat of extermination before anti-Semitism spread in Germany. According to Hagen, the structural crisis between Jewish communities and modernizing

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