Holocaust and Zionism

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This paper examines the correlation between the holocaust and Zionism. The writer states that it is clear that the idea of a return to a Jewish homeland was strengthened and made more urgent by the holocaust, even as it is also clear that such ideas of a Jewish homeland existed long before the holocaust itself. A history of Zionism is given as well as events prior during and after the holocaust which happened to the Jews of Europe.

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"The facts of what occurred during the Holocaust are relatively clear and relatively simple. During the 19th century, European Jewry was being emancipated, and, in most European countries, Jews achieved some equality of status with non-Jews. Nonetheless, at times Jews were vilified and harassed by anti-Semitic groups. Indeed, some anti-Semites believed that Jewry was an alien race not assimilable into a European culture, but they did not formulate any coherent anti-Semitic campaign. When the Nazi regime came to power in Germany in January 1933, it immediately began to take systematic measures against the Jews. One early decree was a definition of the term Jew. Crucial in that determination was the religion of one's grandparents. Anyone with three or four Jewish grandparents was automatically a Jew, regardless of whether that individual was a member of the Jewish community."

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