A fear in the unknown has been the root cause for many issues that have plagued the world over history. Many of these problems are having to do with race, colour, religion and ethinicity, which in each has a degree of fear as the cause. Fear has the ability to change the minds of thousands of thousands of people, even millions. this was predominantly seen in the Nazi reign of Germany, where German researchers took the minds of thousands and instilled the idea of fear in them, using fictional stories of jewish ritualitic murder, thus giving them the control of the publics mind. Many Germans were at the time seeking some sort of control in amogst the choas that the Depression caused Germany after World War one. Fear stems feelings of revenge, hatred and disregard for life, creating a need for someone to be blamed. This idea of a 'scapegoat' resulted in the death of approximately six million Jews between the years 1941 and 1945. The German fear or 'paranoia' at the time, expressed in puesdobiological terms, was that the Jewish race was inferioir and sought to 'corrupt' both european culture and Aryan blood. These emotions of fear and paranoia, not only thrived in Nazi Germany but also in Canada. Although not as highly publisized, anti-semitic feelings were also very much present in Canada at the turn of the century and even more intense during the 1930s. Though not for the same reasons, these feelings were nevertheless strong and presevereing. The root cause for the intense anti-semitic feelings during the 1930s, can be traced to a growing fear or paranoia that overtook both French and English Canadians, specifically and most significantly in Ontario, Alberta and Quebec.
The idea of antisemitism was not seculded to Nazi Germany and its the surrounding countries but also was very apparent in Canadian culture, during the 1930s. Many Canadians had formed their own opinions about the jewish people long before the Nazi party had its grip on Germany.
In the 1890's, antisemitism in Europe took the form of violent oppression in Eastern Europe. It was a political movement in western Europe, and eventually because of a deplorable economic situation, reached its peak of brutality in the form of Nazism. In Eastern Europe, Jews were seen as outcasts an...
I think Shakespeare intended for Shylock to play the role of a stereotypical 16th century Jew who would be mocked and looked down upon through the eyes of antisemitism which was rampant in England during this time. ...
In Germany and in its 'sister' ethnic-German Austria there was strong antisemitism that since the 19th century developed to a strong political force that blamed Jews for all problems and trouble. ... He had two Jewish friends there, but Vienna was then an active center of strong antisemitism, and Hitler also read "The Protocols of the Learned Elders of Zion", a totally falsified document that was written by the pre-WWI Russian royal secret police in a cynical attempt to divert public blame of Russia's trouble from the monarchy to the Jews. ... It was basically the policy of the ...
Roman Polanski, born Roman Liebling, was born August 18, 1933 in Paris. He was the son of Jewish-Polish parents, who returned to Poland in 1937, because of the antisemitism rising going on France. At the start of World War II Roman and his parents were sent to the concentration camp in Aus...
Of all the people within western society, women have been the most heavily scrutinised by society. By utilising societies tool; the media, society has been able to isolate and identify what is socially acceptable in western society and what is not. By "erasing" certain minority groups from the publi...
Henry Ford of Ford Motors also became convinced that Jews were responsible for WW1 and printed the book for seven years in his newspaper the Dearborn Independent, which gave credibility to the idea that the Jews had started the war as a means to gain profit, which in turn only added to the already blossoming idea of antisemitism in America. ...
Abstract In this paper I will attempt to show how Nazism came to power in the events before and during their time. I am going to try and prove that although many influences and events lead up to Nazi rule, the main theme is the desperation of the German people and ripe economic atmosphere. None of t...