HST 802 Lecture Notes - Lecture 6: Reinhard Heydrich, Adolf Stoecker, Judenrat
17 Apr 2019
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Martin luther (1543) wrote about the distrust he had in jews. Europe"s only major ethnic group at the time. Black death blamed on jews (poisoning wells, sabotaging towns) 20th century jews blamed for bringers of communism, capitalism. Differences between people don"t come from their characteristics, it"s from their blood. Adolf stoecker, leader of the christian social workers party was a huge anti-semite, had many views on how to keep the jews down and not let them take over . Fairly safe at the beginning of 20th century. Nazis take power and hitler starts to take action. Nazis didn"t start to implement programs right away, but knew they wanted to exclude. Clear goal when taken power, jews needed to be removed from positions of influence. German population of jews was three quarters of 1 percent. Josef goebbels announces boycott of jewish businesses, limitations put in place so that. Jews would lose high profile positions and jobs.
