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AP Euro Seminar. Mikila Williams Period 4 March 2, 2012. Prompt:. Analyze anti-Semitism in Europe from the Dreyfus affair in the 1890s to 1939. Definition. Anti-Semitism - The discrimination against or prejudice or hostility towards Jews. The Dreyfus Affair. Took place in the 1890s
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AP Euro Seminar Mikila Williams Period 4 March 2, 2012
Prompt: Analyze anti-Semitism in Europe from the Dreyfus affair in the 1890s to 1939.
Definition • Anti-Semitism -The discrimination against or prejudice or hostility towards Jews.
The Dreyfus Affair • Took place in the 1890s • Alfred Dreyfus - Jewish captain in the French army -Was falsely accused and convicted of treason -The army created evidence to use against Dreyfus with the help of anti-Semites and most of the Catholic establishment
Small growth of anti-Semitism • 1893- Small parties of anti-Semites secured 2.9 percent of the votes cast in prewar elections • 1897-1910- The mayor of Vienna, Karl Lueger, used fierce anti-Semitic rhetoric , which appealed to an unsuccessful artist named Adolf Hitler
Under Hitler • Hitler blamed the Jews for all negative occurrences • Jews had been a target for Nazi persecution ever since he came to power • Towards the end of 1934, most musicians, professors, civil servants, doctors, and lawyers who were Jewish had lost their jobs and the right to practice their professions
Under Hitler con’t • 1935- Nuremberg Laws - Classified Jews as anyone with 1 or more Jewish grandparents - Took away all rights of citizenship • 1938- Kristallnacht - Well-organized wave of violence that smashed windows, looted shops, and destroyed homes & synagogues - German Jews were forced to pay for all the damage
Nuremberg Laws Kristallnacht