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The Eternal Jew
12016-11-22T10:31:04-05:00Anonymous121Poster from the exhibition "The Eternal Jew," which traveled throughout Germany in 1937. By showing the dangers of Jewish influence in German life, it served to promote the stereotypes the Nazis had assigned to the Jewish people.plain2016-11-22T10:31:04-05:004.2.7Anonymous
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12016-11-22T10:42:36-05:00Modern Antisemitism12plain2017-08-03T14:46:15-04:00When countries have significant problems, their rulers often look for someone else to blame, to serve as scapegoats for their own mistakes. The Jews served as targets for such animus. In 1881, the czarist regime initiated and condoned anti-Jewish actions. In Vienna, at the turn of the 20th century, antisemitic factions used hatred against the Jews to gain political power. There, as elsewhere Jews were accused of seeking world domination.
The Nazis exploited the weaknesses of Weimar Germany and blamed the Jews for Germany's loss of World War I, for galloping inflation that wiped out the wings of the middle class in the early 1920s, and for the communist revolution in Russia. Political antisemitism was only one component of Nazi antisemitism: from the publication of Mein Kampf onward, Judaism was regarded as a race, not as a religious or national identity. The elimination of Jews - defined as bloodlines - was viewed as imperative to the German nation.
