Hitler and Anti-semitism

Hitler and Anti-semitism

Hitler and Anti-Semitism vs. THE JEWS

During World War II, the Nazi (Nationalsozialistische Deutsche Arbeiterpartei / National Socialist Workers party) regime of the German dictator Adolf Hitler murdered six million Jewish men, women, and children.   According to Webster’s dictionary a Jewish person is a person who is a member of a people now living in many countries of the world who trace their descent from the Israelites of the Bible, or from postexillic adherents of Judaism. By definition Jewish people had not committed any crime.   “Yet to Hitler, and to many who carried out his orders, these people had been criminals since before birth.   They were Jews.” (Arnold, 11)   The Jewish people of the world had no responsibility for the events that led to the demise of the Jewish people.   The rise of anti-Semitism in Germany escalated to an event called Kristallnacht which should have been anticipated as a public proclamation of Hitler’s desire to purge Europe of the Jews.    
In 1933, the Nazi dictator Adolf Hitler came to power in Germany and made anti-Semitism an official government policy.   Hitler’s attempt to purge Europe of the Jews is a continuation of racism and prejudice that have been present in the world for many hundreds of years:
Among those who have suffered most at the hands of prejudice are the Jews.   Though small in number when compared to other groups, they constitute one of the most significant bodies of people in the world having made great contributions over the centuries to science, medicine, commerce, and the arts. (Dolan, 5)  

Over the years other cultures and groups of people have felt threatened by the Jews and their accomplishments:  
In great part, prejudice springs from fear: the fear that someone might be better then we are, might take a job we want, might somehow change for the worse our neighborhood, or might challenge our dearest beliefs—and even prove them wrong—with his or her beliefs. (Dolan, 9)  

The Jews never...