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AP Euro Seminar

Explore the rise of anti-Semitism in Europe from the Dreyfus Affair in the 1890s to 1939, analyzing key events such as the Nuremberg Laws and Kristallnacht. Understand the discrimination, prejudice, and persecution faced by Jews during this period.

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AP Euro Seminar

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  1. AP Euro Seminar Mikila Williams Period 4 March 2, 2012

  2. Prompt: Analyze anti-Semitism in Europe from the Dreyfus affair in the 1890s to 1939.

  3. Definition • Anti-Semitism -The discrimination against or prejudice or hostility towards Jews.

  4. 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

  5. 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

  6. 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

  7. 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

  8. Nuremberg Laws Kristallnacht

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