Anti Semitism 19th Century

The 19th century was a time of great scientific discoveries. Discoveries like germ theory, which helped us further understand how certain diseases are caused and how they can be prevented, and the invention of the telephone, which became the foundation for every day communication all over the world. The realizations made during this period of history have become an integral part of modern society and its comforts. With all that being said, most of the Western world is still rooted in bigotry and hatred towards those with physical and cultural differences. New scientific discoveries in biology and anthropology were being used to justify racism and violations of human rights towards those deemed inferior to Europeans and Americans, such as the
Rather than being religious, it was now becoming racial in nature. Ethnically homogenous people of Europe denounced the existence of Jews in their societies and viewed them as alien outsiders. Pseudoscientific theories like social Darwinism “proving” that Jews were inferior to the Aryan race were used to give credence to this denunciation. Around this time Jews were also used as scapegoats for political and social blunders, due to them being easy targets and now political parties had begun using anti-Semitism to gain support from the public. Anti-Semitism has now become an organized movement in Germany and Austria. The beginning of the 20th century saw a decline in anti-Semitism, except in Russia. Anti-Jewish massacres or pogroms were still taking place and were only made worse by the publishing of the Entitled Protocols of the Learned Elders of Zion, which was a forgery created by the Russian secret police that outlined the blueprint of a Jewish conspiracy to take over the world. This document would later be used as anti-Jewish propaganda for generations to come. After the First World War, the Jews were blamed for economic and political upheaval, particularly in Germany, where nationalists and anti-Semites banded
Finally, they would shoot the people into those graves. Sometimes these units would make use of mobile gas vans that would suffocate victims with carbon monoxide gas. This occurred in over 1 500 villages, towns and cities across eastern Europe, with the main perpetrators being the Einsatzgruppen, a special task force of the SS and the police as well as, the Waffen-SS units, which was a military branch of the SS. An estimated 2 million Jews were killed in mass shootings or with gas vans. The extermination camps or killing centers were designed to kill as many Jews as efficiently as possible. Essentially industrializing mass murder. There were five of them, with the most memorized being Auschwitz-Birkenau, and they worked via the release of poisonous gas into sealed gas chambers or vans. German officials transported Jews to these remote killing centers via railway and disguised them as “deportation centers” for outsiders to look in. They were subject to inhumane conditions on the trains such as starvation, overcrowding and lack of water or heat, as a result, many died en route. Almost immediately upon arrival, people were robbed of their belongings, undressed, had