Antisemitism
"If the Anti-Semites want to hate,
let them hate, and let them all go to hell"
-David Ben-Gurion
Anti-Semitism in the Encarta dictionary is defined has a behavior discriminating against Jewish people that harm or discriminate against Jewish people. This definition does not even scrap the surface of what the word Anti-Semitism means to you if you are Jewish.
Anti-Semitism's major part was to give Jews a bad reputation of being subhuman and threatening the purity of the German master race. The Nazis also propagated false claims such as the supposed role of Jews in the "stab in the back," betrayal of Germany's Army that led the Versailles Treaty with its loss territory and large reparation payments.
In the postwar years, Germans suffered runaway inflation and massive unemployment. The National Socialist Workers (Nazi) Party was just one of the many racist groups that sprang up. Hitler soon became most effective anti-Jewish leader. His anti-Semitic......
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