Anti-Semitism

• Nazi ideas to existing anti-Semitism that was largely based on their different religious beliefs and customs, accusations they were to blame for Christ’s death and jealousy of some Jews success in banking and big business.
• Anti-Semitism was already strong in Germany because when Germany had united as a country in 1871, there had been a focus on promoting German nationalism to unite the country against its supposed ‘enemies’ who included Jews.
• This became worse after World War 1, when Nationalist politicians, including the Nazis, promoted the myth that Jews were responsible for the ‘stab in the back’.