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How Did The Nazis Practice Anti-Semitism?
The Nazis were not the first people to practice anti-Semitism, but is true that the Nazis practiced anti-Semitism in the most violent and horrifying way. This generalisation can be easily made because most people aren’t taught about pre-Nazi anti-Semitism so they presume that it was just practiced by the Nazis.
Anti-Semitism had been around for nearly 2000 years before the Nazis. It changed over time as it started off as religious bullying with only a few physical and violent attacks before becoming more financial during the Industrial revolution. Anti-Semitism became racial and extremely violent during the world wars. Some of the first examples of anti-Semitism are from the 1st century when Christians believe Jesus sacrificed himself on the
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He also supported their murder by saying ‘we are at fault in not slaying them’. This is an example of Jews being treated as scape goats. In 1894, Captain Alfred Dreyfus (the only member of the French Army’s general staff who was a Jew) was convicted of passing military secrets to Germany. He was proved innocent but still remained a victim. Mobs in Pars should ‘death to Jews’ which shows that the people of Paris were not against him but against Jews as a whole. During the second half of the 19th century, anti-Semites moved from being religious discrimination to being racism as Jews were beginning to be view not as a religious group of people but a race (Semites). Anti-Semites believed that Jews could be changed by converting religion or assimilation; that Jews were dangerous; and that Jewish blood was passed down families so you were dangerous if you had Jewish family. A lie was spread in the 1900s that the Jews were planning to dominate the world using their wealth and intelligence t manipulated Christians. This was believed by most people which is not a surprise due to the lengths that people would go to to make people believe

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