Anti-Semitism: The Horrors Of The Holocaust

Well first off, Hitler and the Nazis weren’t the first people to treat the Jews poorly; they were just the ones to treat them the worst and the most recent. But up until recent time the Jewish people have always been treated poorly throughout the history of their religion. The Jews have always been like the little guy in school that always gets beat up on. According to the website Why Did Hitler Hate The Jews? Hitler just built upon and used anti-Semitic ideas that already existed from past cultures and societies. The Nazis hatred of the Jews was so different in that they believed that the Jews were biologically and racially distinct, that there was a kind of biological struggle for dominance over the entire human race between the Jews and everybody else (The Nazi Hatred of the Jews). The Nazis singled them out because they thought the Jewish people were pests, the Nazis didn’t even consider them humans, and needed to be eradicated to make the world

Hitler and the Holocaust is a very informational novel written by Robert S. Wistrich that not only explains this horrible time in history, but also gives us a look into the mind of Hitler and Nazi ideology. This book is not just centered on Hitler and Germany as it my sound, antisemitism spread like a plague all across Europe even before the Holocaust took place. In this work, Wistrich is not making an argument, but is trying to find an explanation on why so many inhumane actions were allowed.

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.

Anti-Semitism seemed to be very popular in the European countries. Anti-Semitism is the “prejudice against or hatred of Jews (United States Holocaust Memorial Museum). A man named Wilhelm Marr originated the term in 1879. Violent riots against Jews were often and encouraged by the government officials and pogroms were violent attacks against the Jews by non-Jewish people (United States Holocaust Memorial Museum).

Rumors about jews were spread to the German people which led to extreme racism and hate towards the jewish race in germany. Many germans had grown up around jewish families and still believed the horrible things they were being told. Seeing that people hated people they’d grown up around because of things they were being told by their government about those people is sickening for most. Similar to jewish people, the japanese people in america were hated by fellow countrymen because of rumors after being attacked by japan during pearl harbor,hate for japanese skyrocketed. People thought all Japanese Americans were spies for the Japanese government. Lik elie, being hated by fellow countrymen because of rumors and racism can greatly affect your faith in humanity. Like your fellow countrymen, you'd expect people around the world to step in and stop these social injustices against other people around the

There is always an entity in the air, a presence that encroaches beneath the ground, or even an engrossing feeling that is within the human psyche. This invisible social force that influences everyday life is called prejudice, to which the excruciating backlash Jews have received for their cultural identity and traditions even has a term for it: anti-semitism. There are a large variety of anti-semitic myths that been associated by inaccurate stereotypes to which ignorance continues to breed. In order to properly understand how to debunk these pigeonhole categories, three particular myths will be explored to further comprehend how anti-semitism was in the past and how it currently relates to contemporary times. Jews known for contributing to well poisoning during the Black Death alongside how this group has been linked to being known as “Christ killers” and “ritual murders” provide an ugly, erroneous portrayal that harms the Jewish community and should be ended immediately.

In speaking to the prevalence of anti-Semitic conspiracy with the Black community, Charles W. Mills describes conspiracy theories as an attempt to apply agency to the “[forces] of nature,” which are made up by many complex choices made by a variety of separate actors. Just this occurred during the buildup to the Russian Revolution, when, in 1903, an ultranationalist Russian newspaper published a set of minutes describing a plot to conquer the world. Purporting to be recorded from a suspiciously undetailed meeting of Jewish world leaders, The Protocols of the Learned Elders of Zion reshaped anti-Semitism as we know it. Stephen Bronner outlines the status of anti-Semitism prior to the document:

Jews have been hated for a long time ever since the holocaust. The holocaust had a big impact on many people especially jews. The holocaust created so many issues that everyone didn’t like. The people who were involved in the holocaust went through very traumatic experiences. Jews just were hated. They were hated before the holocaust too. What people are affected by anti semitism? Anti semitism hurts a lot of other people beside jews. According to Merriam Webster Dictionary, anti semitism is hostility or discrimination against jews as a religious or ethnic group. There are two kinds of anti semitism, classical anti semitism and modern anti semitism. Classical anti semitism is hatred and intolerance towards jews. Modern anti semitism was

If one hates someone or something that means they have an intense dislike towards them. Sometimes this hate can be so large it can be an influence for mass destruction. We have learned, or even have seen examples of hate turning into something bigger throughout our history. These examples include the multiple wars, terrorist’s attacks, and genocides. Many of these incidents were drove by hate, and did not end well. What drives this hate? How can people turn on one another with just feeling hate towards them? The Holocaust being one of the many genocides in our history was indeed influenced by an intense dislike. That intense dislike was towards certain types of people it ended up taking multiple lives.

Historically, people have apparently really disliked Judaism, from their oppression(and various counts of genocide and mass murder over several hundred years) at the hands of the Romans and later the Byzantines, oppression at the hands of Muslims, the Crusades, the Spanish Inquisition, the hundreds of blood libels incited by Christians from 700 CE to 1950 CE, their persecution, and murder, at the hands of Russian in in the early 1900s(and earlier), and of course, the Holocaust, they hold a long, and saddening history of oppression. We are however just focusing on only one of these, the Holocaust, and how Hitler originally wanted to solve his ‘Jewish problem’ and how it eventually escalated to his ‘Final Solution’.

To start with, Hitler’s long-established plan of genocide proved his intention was vital to the emergence of the Holocaust. Hitler had a clear plan about the “Jewish Question”. In 1919, Hitler wrote a letter to Gemlich, a German soldier working for Reichswehr, in which he wrote a response of the “Jewish Question”. “Rational anti-Semitism”, Hitler expressed, “must lead to a systematic legal opposition and elimination of the special privilege that Jews hold, in contrast to the other aliens living among us (aliens’ legislation). It’s final objective must unswervingly be the removal of the Jews altogether”. Hitler stated clearly that the systematic anti-Semitism program involved two stages, and Nazis’ anti-Jewish acts in the next three decades proved they were following this systematic approach of Hitler. After gaining dictatorial powers from the Enabling Act passed in March 24, 1933,

political force, yet that they were really organically and racially unmistakable and thusly should have been be annihilated. Albeit present day Anti-Semitism isn't as open out in the open, numerous still accept the generalizations and states of mind toward Judaism and Jews are regularly still negative and bigot. A percentage of the significant present day Jewish generalizations that are depicted in the media are:

- One of the ways anti-Semitism was promoted was through Henry Ford, since Ford was a publisher he was able to print a document stating Jewish conspiracies plotting to destroy Christian civilization and create Jewish sovereignty. Ford had such a popular audience that many believed what he had wrote. Even after he retracted his document due to forgery he continued to

One of the reasons anti-semitism will never be eradicated is racist people that love to spread rumors about Jews, such as Adolf Hitler. One of the rumors that was spread about Jews by Adolf Hitler and the Nazis is that Jews are responsible for their loss in WWI. They also blamed the Jews for their economic crisis. The Jews were also thought of as a lower race, and according to the Nazis, were so inferior that they shouldn’t be considered people. Another rumor spread about Jews by Adolf Hitler was that they were homosexual. These rumors made many people hateful of the Jewish race.

Hitler had shown unwillingness to tolerate the Jews and once he was appointed Chancellor, he started to take elimination measures like deportation, forced emigration, and isolation to enforce his belief. He took advantage of Germany’s weakness in World War One, then used it as an opportunity to blame the Jews for Germany’s defeat. Hitler’s political party was the largest political party in Germany thus allowing them to draw very large crowds to gatherings. He had very good oratory speeches with hand gestures that easily manipulated people to adhere to his views. Hitler constantly targeted the Jews because he knew people believed in these speeches. People in Germany were already anti-semitic but Hitler made it worse by constantly consuming them in his speeches. From the way he spoke about the Jews, we could clearly see the possibility of genocide. Hitler wanted Germany to be free of any humans that anyone other than his ideal master race so he personally selected bodyguards to be part of a group called the SS. Hitler was responsible for ordering the SS to carry out the extermination of anyone who did not fit this ideal. The SS handled oppositions using force and as a result of which people were forced to give into the idea of violence. Sometimes people purposely went along with this Holocaust ideal due to the fear of getting killed. These terrors allowed the holocaust occur