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The History of Anti-Semitism Starting From the Bible to the Holocaust
In today's view of anti-Semitism, the most significant anti-Semitic
movement was World War II and the Holocaust, however, all throughout
history, a prejudice against the Jewish people has been present that might
have led to this genocide. How could so many people be blind to this mass
murder without having a feeling of self-reproach? In the New ....
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.... money for their crusades. The
Duke of Lorraine wanted to go on such a crusade, and to collect money he
spread the rumor that he would kill the Jews to avenge the death of Christ.
The Jews of the Rhineland paid him 500 pieces of silver as ransom, but some
refused, and crusaders slaughtered Jews of Rouen and other cities in
Lorraine. An estimated 8,000 Jews were massacred in France and Germany for
such purposes (Glatzer). Although most of the people were anti-Semitic,
some did prot ....
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