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The War Against the Jews
by Rabbi Eliahu Ellis & Rabbi Shmuel Silinsky
Using skillful propaganda, the Nazis brought German anti-Semitism to a fever pitch.

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Anti-Semitic Cartoon

Anti-Semitic Cartoon
photo courtesy of Yad Vashem

Hitler played heavily on the anti-Semitism already rooted within his people. He resurrected ideas that a previous king of Germany, Frederick the Great, had introduced. There were distinct categories of human beings. Essentially, the Germans were Aryans, and everyone else was sub-human. Hitler took these ideas and embellished them. He blamed the Jews for "two great wounds upon humanity: "Circumcision of the Body and Conscience of the Soul."

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Degrading Jews

Jews Forced To Carry Anti-Jewish Signs
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The Jews were accountable for that.

As Hitler gained popularity, his hatred of Jews spread and became a rallying cry.

The Nazi propaganda paper, Der Sturmer, revived the "Blood Libels." The church would warn their constituents: "Watch your children 6-7 weeks before Passover... Everyone knows that just before Passover Jews need the blood of a Christian child, maybe, to mix in with their Matzah."

The attitude taught to the children was, "Just as one poisonous mushroom can poison a whole family, one Jew can poison a whole town or a whole country!"

Read the complete story from "The Toadstool," a Nazi children's book.

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Nazi Rally With Signs: "The Jews Are Our Misfortune!"
photo courtesy of Yad Vashem

Der Sturmer was running contests encouraging German children to write in. One little girl wrote, "People are so bothered by the way we're treating the Jews. They can't understand it, because they are God's creatures. But cockroaches are also God's creatures, and we destroy them."

Words can create an attitude. If a person says something loud enough and often enough, he creates a climate. And under that climate, all sorts of things can happen.


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VISITORS COMMENTS: 71

(71) josh, 7/2/2008

The Book " The War Against The Jew" by Dagobert D. Runes is now available at www.torahlab.org

(70) Sasa, 14/1/2008
OMG!
that one girls article was horible about the jews! it made me want to cry!

(69) Rukhsaar, 7/1/2008
WE ARE ALL GODS CREATURES.
i LOVE THE HOLOCAUST AS A SUBJECT. THiS SHOWS THAT HOW MUCH A PERSON CAN HATE SOMEONE OR A RACE. THE HOLOCAUST TEACHES US ABOUT LiFE. BECASUE iT TELLS US THAT WE ARE ALL EQUAL.

(68) Anonymous, 3/12/2007
Little Girls Can Talk
Wow!!
It's incredible how little girls (and boys) can say stuff that seems so simple, but can bring others back to reality!!





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