Between the years 1920 and 1930, many stereotypes of Jews developed in Europe. All Jews were seen as large nosed, wealthy, obese, dirty, ugly, smelly, dishonest, greedy, and deceitful people. They were also seen as drunk, perverted, and seducing people. In fact any bad point you can say about anybody, they were classed to be. "The only thing that Jews could understand was the whip." There was a lot of propaganda in Der Sturmer, a German magazine/ newspaper about the Jews. A good example of that is a cartoon of a stereotypical Jew hugging what could be taken for a young Aryan woman. There is a bottle of alcohol on the floor. This shows the Jew to be a perverted, alcoholic user. Looking at the propaganda on the Jews, all of the visual pictures of the Jews had elderly people on them instead of young Jews. They used old people because it is easier to make an older person look uglier than she/he actually is.

The ideas for these stereotypes originally formed when the Romans became Christians. These Christians were against those who remained "traditional Jews". They tried to turn peop

The problem with cartoons is that they often show the stereotype of the subject. This makes it unreliable and uninformative, unless however, you are looking for sources of information about certain stereotypes that either were created, or came about from the medieval period. This shows a one sided view of a specific group of people on another, but by no means, supports the idea that this is what everybody looked like, if anybody.

After World War I, Germany was forced to sign, the Treaty of Versailles, which meant that she, was plunged into a desperate situation. In 1929, the Wall Street Crash occured, and America wanted all the money she had lent to Germany back, to fund her recovery. This meant that Germany was destroyed economically as well as socially, so everyone suffered. To get them out of this difficult situation, they all looked to extremist political parties to run Germany. There were two extremist parties, the Communists and the Nazis. People had little confidence in the democratic system and turned towards the extremist political parties like the Communists and Nazis during the Depression because they needed to get out of the crisis that they were in at the time. The Nazis bullied all the other parties out of the July Election in 1932, so the only party to vote for were the Nazis. After the failure of the Munich Putsch in 1923, Hitler tried to gain power in a lawful way. He wanted to be elected rather than to seize control. In 1930, the Nazis won 107 seats in Reichstag (the German parliament) from the 12 seats it had in 1928. The Nazi vote was slow to increase during the 1920s while things were going well, but the Depression changed the situation dramatically.

On 7th November somebody did. A Jew shot and killed a member of the Reichstag. This brought on fury to the Nazis. That night, 'Kristalnacht' (Crystal Night), violence against Jews erupted when almost every Jewish property was destroyed ,and people were marched off to concentration camps where they either died, there or moved onto a death camp where they did.

Back at the ghettos, volunteered Jews were told that they were going to be resettled and they were given food to fool them about where they were going. When they were really to go to ghettos. When they got there, they were put into two rows, those able to work, and those not. Those not, were murdered almost straight away. Most did not survive the horrific conditions there, either by being murdered or gassed, or by dying of diseases.

The fact that the strong views of the Nazis gave the impression that they knew what they were going to do also made them favourite to the German public. The industrialist, Alfred Hugenberg, offered Hitler money and support from his publishing and media companies to attack the Young Plan for German reparations.

The Depression of 1929 created many economical problems. The Nazis said that they would get rid of all this. That was what the German public wanted to hear.

In January the foll

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