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A Victim's Minority

Jews were isolated, segregated, misunderstood and then demonised. They were subjected to crusades in the 1100s, expelled from England in the 1200s, blamed for the Black Death in the 1300s, expelled from Spain in the 1400s, abused by Martin Luther in the 1500s, massacred in Eastern Europe in the 1600s, and driven out of Russia in the 1800s. Trades were restricted and controlled - they were forced to become moneylenders at one time and farmers at another.

‘Their synagogues should be set on fire...for the honour of Christianity their homes should be destroyed... their rabbis forbidden to preach under threat of death... Let us drive them from the country for all time. If this advice does not suit, then find a better one that we may be rid of this devlish burden - the Jews’.
Martin Luther, German church reformer and founder of the Lutheran Church, 1543.
   
 
 
IntroductionWhat is the Holocaust?
Jewish Tradition
Antisemitism
Hitlers Rise to Power
The Third Reich

Mass Murder
The Final Solution
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Resisting the Enemy
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