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By 1920, How Fearful Would a European Jew Have Been about the Future?
Summary: Post World War I Germany was a very poor and angry country. In the 1920's, a group called the National Socialist Party ("the Nazi party") was formed in Germany. They had great hatred towards what they called "inferior races." These races included Slavs, Negroes, Homosexuals, Gypsies, Jehovah's witnesses and especially Jews. Their hatred towards Jews was particularly strong because they held all of them responsible for the acts caused by a few, and Jews in general were once again used as a scapegoat, but this time for Germany's defeat in the first World War. They believed that the Jews were not fighting for their country, even though 12 thousand Jews fought and died in the war.
The Nazi's plan was to get rid of all these races and create a superior Aryan race.
In this essay, I would like to explain why, at the beginning of the twentieth century, German Jews would be living in fear, and would have wanted to leave Europe.
Jew's were hated throughout the world long before the Second World War. Jews had been hated in Europe for centuries, and had been known as "Christ Killers." For example in 1287, 269 Jews were hung at the tower of London.
Since the birth of Judaism, Jews have been oppressed for following a different code of law. Jews have always been persecuted simply for being Jewish, with an early recorded incident being in the year 38 AD, when thousands of Jews were put under restrictions, tortured and eventually killed in Alexandria (Egypt) by the Roman Empire. Since then the Jews have been a scapegoat for the execution of Jesus Christ.
For over three hundred years, from the 1000's to the 1200's, the...
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