Antisemitism

             When God created the world,He invented the races:The Indians, the Negroes, the Chinese. And also the wicked creature called the Jew.
             This saying comes from a children's book published in Germany in 1936.
             The question raised by it is how did the German people so readily accept this kind of hate policy from their leader? The answer is to be found in the cultural and historical fabric of the European community and especially in that of the German people.
             There is one thread that makes all the difference to this question of why, it is called antisemitism. To answer the question presented, one must follow the thread as it weaves its way through the tapestry of anti-Jewish actions.
             To understand the antisemitism and the acceptance of it by the Nazi period German population, one must first look at antisemitism and its beginnings in history prior to the Nazi period. The thread of antisemitism was most likely spun in the medieval period with the conflict between the Christian church and the Jews. European antisemitism is a natural result of the "religion" of Christianity. By the word religion, the idea of tradition and pious thinking is inferred, not the teaching of Jesus which is love for all mankind. From the earliest days of Christianity's growing strength over the Roman Empire, its leaders preached against Jews, using emotional and very powerful condemnations. The psychological and theological need that impelled Christians to look at themselves differently from the Jews( who brought the religion from which their own had broken off) was born over and over again with every new generation, because as long as the Jews rejected the revelation of Jesus, they challenged the Christians' certainty in that revelation.
             The Christians thought that if the Jews- the people of God- avoided the Messiah God had promised them, then something was wrong. Either the Messiah was false, or t...

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