The twentieth century has seen several episodes of anti Semitism, the most well known of these being the Holocaust of World War Two.

Throughout this century, society has been shaped by events such as wars which have changed the roles and values held by almost every imaginable social group in society. As a direct result of this and several other factors, attitudes towards discrimination of any kind have evolved to a point where prejudice, if it has not diminished, is far more hidden as the century draws to a close. This is true of any group which traditionally faced oppression, such as women, people of African or indigenous descent and Jews.

Anti Semitic values are thought to have developed in Germany in the middle of the 19th century, Jews were considered to be inferior to peoples Aryan descent. This theory gained worldwide support and only little objection from ethnologists of the

6. Friedlander, Albert. Leo Baeck Teacher of Theresienstadt , Holt Rinehart and Winston, Canada 1968

Several countries throughout Central and Western Europe followed the German anti Semitic practices. Austria's Christian Socialist party publically advocated anti-Semitic ideas. (Ackerman, N Anti Semitism and Emotional Disorder 1961)

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