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Catholic Church 's responses to Nazi antisemitism

Antisemitism refers to hatred or prejudice towards the Jews . The Nazi antisemitism started in 1933 and ended in 1945 marking a period of persecution and murder of Jews in Europe by the Nazis in Germany under Hitler 's ruling regime (Poliakov , 8

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Hatred against the Jews was prevalent in the modern era especially in the 19th and 20th century . This led to the origin of the word antisemitism which refers to the pogroms , violence and

riots propelled by governments against the Jews (Falk , 10 . Pogroms and violence against the Jews were initially instigated by false beliefs that the Jews were using blood from Christian children for their religious rituals . In the 19th century , the prejudice against the Jews intensified with the formation of antisemitic political parties in Germany , Austria and France . This marked the beginning of an international conspiracy against the Jews with the component of nationalism which treated Jews as disloyal and illegal citizens

In the late 19th century , a political party named as Voelkisch movement which comprised mainly of German philosophers promoted the notion that Jews were not a part of the Germandom . Eugenic theories based on racial anthropology helped to support this notion and from this pseudoscientific ideas , the Nazi party was founded in 1919 . The Nazi party which was headed by Adolf Hitler helped to promote theories of racism and hatred towards the Jews which called for their removal out of Germany

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