On February 10, 2001, in Hagen, Germany, thousands of protestors joined together for a demonstration against a neo-Nazi march (CNN). About 7,500 counter-demonstrators rallied against the march, which was organized by the Federation of German Unions. The group had exceeded its expected number of demonstrators. The expected number of demonstrators was 5000. "Police said some protestors tried to break through barriers and disrupt the neo-Nazi march which attracted 250 supporters" (CNN).

Germany is trying to combat a wave of hate crimes that have erupted since its reunification in 1990. Hostility towards foreigners, who make up eight percent of Germany's 82 million people, is often especially strong in the east, where right-wing groups have created what they call "foreigner free zones" through intimidation (CNN). The governor of North Rhine-Westphalia state, Wolfgang Clement, had called

Jews were not only the victims of the Holocaust (Friedenberg 278). Millions of Russians, Poles, gypsies, and other "sub humans" were also murdered. But Jews were the favored targets-first and foremost.

As the leader of the Nazis, Adolf Hitler preached anti-Semitism not only as a policy, but also as a religion. The fact is that Hitler's anti-Semitism was self-inflicted obstacle to his political success (Thornton 112). The Jews, like other Germans, were shocked by the discovery that the war had been fought to a standstill, as they were led to believe in November 1918, but that Germany had, in fact, been defeated and was to be treated as a vanquished country. Had Hitler not embarked on his policy of disestablishing the Jews as Germans, and later of exterminating them in Europe, he could have counted on their loyalty.

after Hitler's conquest of Poland, the Nazis cast aside all restraint. Jews in their millions were now herded into concentration camps, there to starve and perish as slave laborers. Other millions were driven into dismal ghettos, which served as holding pens until Nazis got around to disposing of them (297).

The start of the Nazi power was when the German government was weak and German citizens were tired of the depression that they were going through at the time

allowed to march in rows or beat drums. "We wanted to prevent a uniformed march because that would frighten people," said Ute Hellmann, a police spokeswoman (CNN).

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