AntiSemitism

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Anti-Semitism

• Hatred
• Through
• History

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Jews in Christian Europe

• Cultural differences made the Jews standout
• Jews generally lived in close-knit communities
• Have been demonized, discriminated against by
  Christians for 2000 years
• Christianity needed Judaism as a contrast - to
  make Christianity look better, to act as a
  scapegoat

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Timeline

• 30 CE - Christ is killed. His death was ordered
  and carried out by mostly non-Jews. Most
  Christians blame the Jews including St. Paul who
  said that the Jews killed the Lord Jesus and the
  prophets and drove us out, the Jews who are
  heedless of Gods will and enemies of their
  fellow men.

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Timeline

• 2nd Century - The early Christian fathers began
  to separate themselves from everything Jewish.
  Formal positions against Judaism formed. Negative
  stories and images passed around.

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Timeline

• 325 CE - Christianity became the official
  religion of the Roman Empire. Jews were
  portrayed as idolaters, torturers, spiritually
  deaf, gluttons, adulterers, cannibals,
  Christ-killers, and beyond Gods forgiveness.

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Timeline

• 325 CE - The Jews have assassinated the Son of
  God! How dare you associate with this nation of
  assassins and hangmen. The Jews are the most
  worthless of all men. They are lecherous,
  greedy, rapacious. They are the perfidious
  murders of Christ The Jews are the odious
  assassins of Christ and for killing God there is
  no expiation possible, no indulgence or pardon.
  Christian may never cease vengeance, and the Jews
  must live forever in servitude forever. God
  always hated the Jews. It is incumbent upon all
  Christians to hate the Jews.

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Timeline

• 533 CE - Justinian CodeChurch law now became
  state policy in the Roman Empire. Jews were no
  longer aloud to hold high offices or have
  military careers. Intermarriage was punishable
  by death.

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Timeline

• 5th - 7th CenturyViolence against Jews
  Escalates418 CE - In Majorica, Jews were forced
  to convert, riots started when they refused.489
  CE - In Antioch, Christian mobs burned synagogues
  - Jews were thrown into the flames.

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Timeline

• 1120 CE - Peter the Venerable, Abbot of Cluny
  declared to the faithful Truly I doubt whether
  a Jew can be really human I lead out from its
  den a monsterous animal and show it as a laughing
  stock in the amphitheatre of the world. I bring
  thee forward, thos Jew, thou brute beast, in
  sight of all.

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Timeline

• Middle Ages
• 1st Crusade - 10,000 Jews killed in Jerusalem
  when give the decision of death or baptism.
• Jews were forbidden to walk in public on
  Christian feast days
• Considered an inferior species
• Demonic stereotyping - many Christians believed
  that Jews were not actually human beings, but
  creatures of the devil - allies of Satan and
  personifications of the anti-Christ

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Timeline

• Middle Ages
• Said to emit a foul odor as a punishment for
  killing Christ
• Preachers taught that Jews were Satans partners
  in financial dealings
• Blamed for the Black Death - some were burned
  alive, others were forced to confess to spreading
  the plague

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Timeline

• Renaissance and Reformation
• Jews in Germany has to wear cone hat
• Popes during Reformation made Jews wear visible
  badge
• Northern Italy, German speaking nations, and
  Poland set up Ghettos for Jews, separating them
  from Christians
• Spanish Inquisition - Jews given 4 months to
  convert or leave. 300,000 Jews left Spain.
  1000s of children taken from parents.

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Timeline

• 15th Century
• 100,000 Jews killed in pogroms in the Ukraine

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Timeline

• 17th - 18th Centuries
• Enlightenment challenged basic belief system that
  knowledge comes from faith and reason.
• As Western Europe became more educated, people
  looked past differences

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The Protocols of the Learned Elders

• Booklet that alleged proved that Jews were
  trying to take over the world in 1897
• Spelled out secret plans of Jewish leaders to
  attain world domination
• Created by Czarist official in Russia to blame
  Jews for problems.
• Referenced by Hitler to justify anti-Semitic
  legislation

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German Jews

• 1871 - 1933
• German Jews integrate into German Society,
  consider themselves Germans before Jews
• Had supported the build up of the German empire,
  before and after WWI
• Made up only 1 of population

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Hitlers Views

• He believed that The Great War was lost because
  of the Jewish-Marxist 'stab in the back'.
• The Aryan Race - 'Pure' Germans (men with blue
  eyes and blond hair) are the strongest race and
  far superior to any other.
• Incorrectly named the Jews as a race
• Hitler describes the struggle for world
  domination as an ongoing racial, cultural, and
  political battle between Aryans and Jews
• Anyone who publicly disagreed sent to work camp
  or killed

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Nazi Education
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Nazi Education
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Nazi Education
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Nazi Education

• Nazis controlled education
• 97 of all teachers part of the Nazi Teachers
  Association
• History lessons focused on the glory of Germany
  and the Jewish plots to destroy it
• Biology focused on racial superiority of the
  Aryan race, and inferiority of the Jews
• Teachers were expected to attack the life style
  of the Jews
• Purpose was to create a generation that was
  blindly loyal to Hitler

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Nazi Education

• Exam questions even contained blunt references to
  the anti-Semitic stances of the government
• "A bomber aircraft on take-off carries 12 dozen
  bombs, each weighing 10 kilos. The aircraft takes
  off for Warsaw the international center for
  Jewry. It bombs the town. On take-off with all
  bombs on board and a fuel tank containing 100
  kilos of fuel, the aircraft weighed about 8 tons.
  When it returns from the crusade, there are still
  230 kilos left. What is the weight of the
  aircraft when empty ?"

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Why the Jews?

• Historical hatred
• Through propaganda and repetition of anti-Semitic
  ideas the people bought into his ideas

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