The Treatment of Jews Before and After World War I

The treatment of Jews before and after World War 1
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The treatment of Jews before and after World War 1
The Jewish populations in Germany and other parts of Europe were victims of Nazism and nearly 13 million civilians were murdered by this racist and murderous regime. This paper seeks to convey an image with regard to how Jews were treated prior to and following the First World War as well as the political state at that time. The paper also highlights the obstacles that Jews faced in their daily life. This will help to understand how the Jews lived during these times. This paper is based on both primary and secondary sources. Thesis statement: Before and after World War 1, Jews in Germany encountered anti-Semitic discrimination and prejudice. They lost various rights after a number of anti-Jewish decrees were put in place. As violence toward the Jews intensified, some had to depart their homes in Germany to move to England and other countries.
The Nazis utilized propaganda campaigns in promoting the party’s virulent abhorrence of the Jewish people. This attitude toward the Jewish people is referred to as anti-Semitism and could take various forms for instance verbal, physical or institutional. The Nazi adherents portrayed the Jews as inferior and sub-human beings who were only interested in communism or in their own financial gain. In essence, the Nazi followers built on the negative myths regarding the Jews which had been in existence for centuries.
Following its defeat in the First World War, Germany felt disgraced by the Versailles Treaty that decreased its army very much, significantly decreased its pre-war territory, required Germany to pay damages to the allied powers, and required Germany to recognize that it was guilty for the war. The German Empire was ruined and a different parliamentary government was created. In 1933 January, the Nazi Party leader Adolf Hitler was appointed by Germany’s President Paul von Hindenburg as the country’s Chancellor after the win of Nazi Party in the 1932 general elections. The Nazi Party had exploited the political unrest in the country to achieve an electoral foothold in Germany. It is worth mentioning that members of the Nazi Part provoked clashes with communist adherents and carried out a nasty propaganda campaign against those who opposed them. The Nazis partly blamed the Jews for the problems that Germany faced.
Amongst the stereotypes with regard to the behaviours of the Jewish people which were common during the wake of the First World War and which were intentionally propagated along with other prejudices included the following myths: the Jewish people had initiated the war with the aim of bringing Europe politically and economically into ruin and make Europe vulnerable to control by Jews. Nazi Germans also asserted that the Jewish people took advantage of the misery of the World War I to enrich themselves and they prolonged the war so that the Bolshevik Revolution can further the goal of world revolution, and that the Jewish people controlled the finances of the reparations system after the First World War for their own benefit and profit. Nazi Germans also believed that the Jews, with their instinctive ...