feeling meant that the same intention could have emerged in other nations. However, the rise of Hitler and the Nazi party in Germany allowed for the European Jewry to become the scapegoat for many of Germany's problems before World War I, including the loss of World War I, and the economic downturn that Germany had suffered because of it. The stabbed in the back myth had drastic effects on the general populations view of the European Jewry. Although Hitler's first anti-Semitic writings occurred on September sixteenth, 1919 he describes the Jewish people as "a race and not a religious association." Although Hitler specifically pinpoints the European Jewry in his writings they are not the only group that he views as being a threat to his government. Groups such as communists, physically and mentally disabled persons, homosexuals, political enemies, and Gypsies were also persecuted and killed during the Holocaust.
             However, it is the Jewish case that has been most focused on in recent years. The discrimination of the Jews began in Germany with the passage of the first anti-Semitic laws that deprived "German Jews of citizenship and [imposed] a variety of humiliating but not very substantive restrictions." These Nuremberg laws that were passed were seen as another escalation of the conflict that had been growin
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