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Q: The holocaust was based in anti-semitism what is anti-semitiem?
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What is a statement with the word anti-semitism that has to do with the holocaust?

Antisemitism was one of the factors which led to the Holocaust.


When did antisemitism reach a peak?

It reached a peak in the Holocaust.


Was the anti-Semitism bad during the Holocaust?

The antisemitism during the Holocaust was just an exaggerated form of pre-Holocaust antisemitism.


Did Japan know about holocaust?

Yes, and the Japanese were completely bewildered by antisemitism.


How is the Holocaust anstisemetic?

it is not. The people who perpetrated the Holocaust may have been, or the Holocaust may have some roots in antisemitism, but it is a name given to the events, it holds not prejudice, it just is.


The holocaust was based in anti semitism what is anti semitism?

Antisemitism was one factor in the Holocaust, but not the basis of it. Antisemitism is a term used to denote a prejudice against Jews, much like sexism denotes a prejudice against a sex, or racism a prejudice against a race.


How did Hitlers antisemitism affect the Jewish people in Germany?

it affected them by the nazi starting the holocaust


What was natural selection based on during the holocaust?

The Holocaust has nothing to do with natural selection, or vice versa. The Holocaust was the result of atrocious crimes committed under the leadership of a few madmen, inspired by a long tradition of antisemitism. Natural selection is a model that describes differential reproductive success in natural populations, under natural circumstances.


What did Anti-Semitism mean during the holocaust?

The word antisemitism means prejudice against or hatred of Jews.


Why was the Holocaust was considered a mass hysteria?

That notion is inaccurate. Nazi antisemitism was obsessive and hysterical, but the notion that the Holocaust itself was 'mass hysteria' is based on the mistaken assumption that the German population was howling for Jewish blood and the Nazi leadership obliged, so to speak. The Holocaust was not driven by the German population. It was driven by forces much higher up the hierarchy.


Was antisemitism the precondition for the Holocaust?

Yes. Without long-standing prejudices against the Jews it would have been virtually impossible to demonize them in way that the Nazis did and to try to exterminate them. From a social and political point of view, one cannot simply pick on any group and exterminate it. It has often been said that antisemitism is as irrational as hating people with red hair, but of course 'redheads' have not been demonized and persecuted.


What has the author Matti Myllykoski written?

Matti Myllykoski has written: 'Murhatun Jumalan varjo' -- subject(s): History, Judaism, Jews, Persecutions, Christianity and antisemitism, Church history, Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945), Antisemitism