Humanities Prejudice And Persecution Coursework

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Shanice Elijah                                                                                Humanities C/w      Miss Corrigan

Why did the Nazis hate the Jews? Did Nazi Propaganda make the German people prejudiced against the Jewish race? How successful were the policies of the Nazi government in establishing an anti- Semitic society?

In this coursework I will be explaining why the Nazi’s hated the Jews. I will explain what propaganda is and if the Nazi propaganda makes the German people prejudiced against the Jewish race, and how successful the policies to establish an anti-Semitic were.

The term prejudice means an attitude (about a person or group) that is formed without having all the facts. This usually involves disliking somebody, mostly because of their ethnicity, sexuality, religion etc. Prejudice attitudes are learned. For example children in Nazi Germany were taught to hate Jews, which is like anti- Semitic. Germans were influenced by the use of propaganda to prejudice them and make them discriminate against the Jews. The main reason for this was because of Adolf Hitler.

The term discrimination means when treating someone in a different way, usually less well, because they belong to a particular group. The Nazi’s treated the Jews differently, due to their religion and they discriminated the Jews as they way they looked like.

The term persecution is to treat an individual or group badly. Hitler persecuted the Jews as soon as he came to power in 1993.  

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Adolf Hitler persecuted Jews in many different ways. The way that Hitler persecuted the Jews were:

  • When Hitler seized power in 1933 he used his powers under the ‘enabling law’ to begin his attack on the Jews.
  • In 1938 the attacks on the Jews became more violent with Himmler the head of the SS and the Gestapo launching Kristallnacht on 11th November 1938.
  • By 1939, half of Germany’s 500,000 Jews had emigrated to escape Nazi persecution.
  • In 1939, Germany invaded Poland which had a much larger population of 3 million Jews.
  • In 1941, Germany invaded Russia ...

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