HIEU 158 Chapter 1: HIEU 158 Chapter : Rees -- Chapter 1
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Hitler is 30 with nothing to his name. He writes a letter to a fellow soldier blaming the jews for all his suffering and saying that the german government should do nothing except get rid of all of them. None of the ideas he wrote in this note were original, they all came from previous anti semitic feelings that had circulated in germany before. Anti semitism goes as far back as the bible, where there are passages that say the. Jews were seeking to kill jesus and jesus supposedly calls them children of the devil . Jews were kept from holding most jobs, so they went for money-lending which was one of their only options. Martin luther wrote some very anti semitic texts. The enlightenment brought about some better thinking. People started to argue that it wasn"t the fault of the jews for doing what they did since they were forced to due to their political and social standing.
