Antisemitism

Antisemitism

   Through the passing of The Nuremberg Laws, a more severe but definately not new form of segregation was encouraged. Its roots trace back to 1879, when German journalist Wilhelm Marr first used the word antisemitism in correspondence to the idea of hating Jews. Though the laws pinpointed the Jews participation in society, Anitsemitism was a more broader term that covered the hating of Jews and the political trends and movements that supported them. However, with the releasing of The Nuremberg Laws came the most intense and heightenned form of antisemitism that still is considered one of harshest cases of genocide to exist: The Holocaust.

What made Hitler's ideas prosper so well was that after the Nuremberg Laws were made, it let people legally discriminate against Jews, and test their rights they did as antisemitism became a force of habit in Nazi Germany. Aryanization  Mentioned before, Hitler was shooting to create an "Aryan" only society. Aryans were people who belonged to the Reich, thus excluding Jews from this level of power and equality. At this stage, Jews would have to register all of their belongings (foreign and domestic), eventually leading to the confiscation of many manditory items in a later step taken by the Nazis. Also at this time, Hitler intoduced the process of Aryanization, which was a simply the termination of Jews employment contracts all over Germany. This included Jewish-owned businesses, which were handed over to German care and helped with funding from the government, defeating all remaing Jewish competition.

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