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 * 1) -Anti-Semitism is the common name for anti-Jewish sentiments.
 * 2) -During Hitler, anti-Semitism was implemented in its most grotesque form.
 * 3) -The Nazis used anti-Semitism to carry out the Endlösung – the ‘Final Solution of the Jewish Question’.
 * 4) -Through persecution and later extermination of the European Jews, the Nazis hoped to solve the ‘Jewish problem’ once and for all – strongly backed by anti-Semites in the Balkans, the Soviet Union and other eastern European countries.
 * 5) -But anti-Semitism is neither invented in Germany or a specifically German phenomenon. Through centuries, Jews were a persecuted people.
 * 6) -Ever since the expulsion of the Jews from Palestine and their settling in Europe and elsewhere around the world, evidence of anti-Jewish sentiments and actions has surfaced.
 * 7) -During the Middle Ages, such actions often took the form of pure mass murder.
 * 8) -At the end of the 19th century and the beginning of the 20th century, Jews fell victim to frequent pogroms in Eastern Europe.
 * 9) Nazi persecution in the 1930’s and 1940’s, Jews all over -German-controlled Europe were systematically killed. More than 6 million were murdered.
 * 10) -Accordingly, the Church and the people frequently accused the Jews of all sorts of misfortunes: The Jews were accused of being responsible for the death of Christ, they were accused of killing Christian children, and they were accused of causing natural catastrophes.
 * 11) -When the Plague (The Black Death) broke out in 1348, the Jews were also accused of having caused that to happen.
 * 12) -Anti-Semitism was also caused by xenophobia.
 * 13) -As nationalism became the order of the day, the hatred of the Jews escalated and the number of pogroms increased all over Europe.
 * 14) -In the name of nationalism, ethnic and religious minorities were looked down upon. Also, the word ‘anti-Semitism’ was invented (in 1879).
 * 15) -The European populations turned their frustrations with their social and economic problems towards the “strangers” – a situation perhaps not all that different from todays. -At the end of the 13th century, anti-Semitic sentiments increased around Europe. In England, Jews were expelled in 1290, while in many other places Jews were massacred.