NAZI

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Anti-Semitism

political, social, and economic agitation and activities directed against Jews. The term is now used to denote speech and behavior that is derogatory to people of Jewish origin, whether or not they are religious.

• anti-Semitism was coined in 1879
• anti-Jewish agitation has existed for several thousand years
• Since the 4th century AD (and possibly before), Jews have been regarded as the killers of Jesus Christ
• With the rise and eventual domination of Christianity throughout the Western world, discrimination against Jews on religious grounds became universal, and systematic and social anti-Judaism made its appearance.
  • Jews were massacred in great numbers
  • segregated in ghettos
  • required to wear identifying marks or garments
  • the German political scene was marked by the presence of at least one openly anti-Semitic party until 1933, when anti-Semitism became the official policy of the government under National Socialism (Nazism)
  • The persecution of Jews in Eastern Europe was climaxed by a series of organized massacres, known as pogroms, that began in 1881
  • one of the worst outbreaks of pogroms occurred in 1906 as an aftermath of the unsuccessful 1905 revolution in Russia. It involved about 600 villages and cities, the pogroms resulted in the slaughter of thousands of Jews and the looting and destruction of their property.

• in Germany during the 1930s and 1940s, anti-Semitism exploded under the Nazi regime led by Adolf Hitler.
  • After the NAZIs came to power in 1933, special legislation was enacted that excluded Jews from the protection of German law
  • The property of Jews was legally seized, and concentration camps were set up in which Jews were summarily executed, tortured, or condemned to slave labor
  • In Europe, puppet, dependent, or military governments of such areas as France, Italy, Poland, and the Ukraine were forced by Germany to adopt anti-Semitic programs
  • Within Germany, Hitler announced a "final solution of the Jewish problem": the merciless slaughter of the Jewish community, a type of crime now recognized under international law as genocide
  • By the end of the war, about six million Jews, including two-thirds of the Jewish population of Europe, had been exterminated by massacre, systematic execution, and starvation

• The NAZIs burned many books that they felt were not proper for their aryan citizens. Many great books of literature were lost during the buring of the books. The follow are the authors whose books were burned:
  • Harvelock Ellis
  • Lion Feuchtwanger
  • Sigmund Freud
  • André Gide
  • Franz Kafka
  • Erich Kästner
  • Hellen Keller
  • Alfred Kerr
  • Jack London
  • Heinrich Mann
  • Thomas Mann
  • Karl Marx
  • Hugo Preuss
  • Marcel Proust
  • Walter Rathenau
  • Erich Maria Remarque
  • Margaret Sanger
  • Arthur Schnitzler
  • Upton Sinclair
  • Jakob Wasserman
  • H. G. Wells
  • Stefan Zweig
  • Emile Zola

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Here are figures for the number of Jews murdered in each country that came under German domination. They are estimates, as are all figures relating to Holocaust victims.

Africa		526		Albania		200
Austria		65,000		Belgium		24,387
Czechoslovakia		277,000		Denmark		77
Estonia		4,000		France		83,000
Germany		160,000		Greece		71,301
Hungary		305,000		Italy		8,000
Latvia		85,000		Lithuania		135,000
Luxembourg		700		Netherlands		106,000
Norway		728		Poland		3,001,000
Romania		364,632		Soviet Union		1,500,000
Yugoslavia				67,122