Nazi Party: Discrimination Against Jews In Europe

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There has always been discrimination against Jews, especially in Europe. Even 850 years before Hitler rose to power. In 1096, Christian soldiers slaughtered and brutally attacked Jews. The Christian Soldiers, demolished a synagogue, that wasn’t remade for 79 years. The same synagogue was destroyed again in the Kristallnacht riots. Also in 1215, the Fourth Lateran Council, a church council made by the Pope, declared that Jews wear specific clothes, so you could differentiate them from Christians. Hitler hated Jews because he felt that they were the reason that Germany lost W11.Then in 1933 a Nazi party came to power, and leading the party was Adolf Hitler. Hitler and the Nazi party had feelings of hate and hostility, towards Jews and everyone

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