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to turn people against Judaism. The Christian stereotype of a Jew was a dishonest, scheming character, responsible for lots of evil things. During the Medieval period, myths developed, enhancing the general appearance of the stereotypes that had previously been formed. The Blood Libel was a myth that stated that Jews used Christian children�s blood to bake their Passover bread. This idea was often aroused when a Christian child went missing. The Black Death was supposed to have been caused by Jewish people poisoning the rivers and seas. This could not have happened, because otherwise it would also have affected the Jews themselves.
�Life was very normal before the Nazis came to power,� says a woman who was a Jewish girl born in 1921. Jewish children could go to a Yiddish speaking schools. There was little conflict between the two religions and 13 million Jews lived in Europe. In Germany, Jews formed 1% of the population. They had a sense of belonging to the German race.
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he made a scapegoat of them. He blamed the Jews for all of the things that had gone wrong with World War I, and because this man who was to get them out of this �Depression� said so, the German public hated them also. Hitler believed in a hierarchy, in which Aryans, people with blue eyes and blond hair, were at the top. These were commonly known as the master race. Jews were at the bottom of this list. He believed that the Jew was trying to destroy the world and therefore Germany needed to be saved and rid of them. He also stated that there was scientific proof that Jews were a sub-human race.

In 1933, Hitler became chancellor and the Nazi party was the largest in the Reichstag, ...

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