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 Jes
Therefore, Jews in a religious sense should disappear from the earth. By the end of the century this fear of invasion was replaced by a realization that they had been invaded and captured. In the violence that followed, thirty-two Jewish men and women were killed; all Jews in the Holy Roman Empire were placed under the suspicion of committing ritual murder. Regarding Jews, the medieval legacy to the modern world was, in Joshua Tractenberg's words, "a hatred so vast and abysmal, so intense, that it leaves one gaping for comprehension. As a result of the massive expulsions from virtually all urban areas during the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries, the majority of Jews resettled in many small communities; often there were only two or three Jewish families in each place. The picture was only beginning to emerge and take shape. The Jews had many restrictions placed upon them in regard to their everyday routines. In 1938 there was a push to solve the "Jewish Problem. They feared that the Jews were invading their country, their lives, and their homes. Several crusaders happened to be in Fulda at the time, and they started the rumor that the Jews were to blame for the fire and the deaths. Race, an unchangeable quality, dictated that a Jew could never be a German. 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 German antisemitism in the latter part of the century focused on a new concept: race. Christians saw themselves and their religion as better than Judaism.
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