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Historians have traced negative feelings towards the Jews during the time of the Roman Empire and the beginning of Christianity.
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Jews were separated from their Christian neighbors by ghettos, by cities being enclosed by gatekeepers who were Christians or by high walls.
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During the 1700s through the 1800s the ghettos walls were coming down and a new idea was coming out which was known as race. During the 1800s race was referred to people who had the same nationality or were related in one way or another. In the late 1800s German Anthropological Society tried to see if there was a racial difference between the Aryan and Jewish children. Soon enough after studying 7 million children the two groups were much more similar than they were different.
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Race became the mixed up viewing that everyone in the world observed.
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There were 250 Germans who had a part in the prominent government posts however there were only four Jews.
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Racists attacks against the Jews and others grew stronger they only really took place in times of stress and doubt for example like the worldwide depression.
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In January of 1933, Adolf Hitler became Prime Minister of Germany as well as started his dictatorship in Germany.
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Jews in 1933 only made up less than 1% of the population.
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Adolf Hitler and his Nazis killed about 1/3 of the Jews in the world whether they were young or old only because of their race and religion. During this time Hitler took control of Germany and then eventually took control over the Eastern and Western nations of Europe. Hitler also created laws that stripped Jews of citizenship and that Christians could not have any contact with the Jews due to being considered a crime.
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Night is about a teenager who was among one of the hundreds of thousands of Jews that were being deported. This teenager was one out of every four that made it out alive of the Holocaust. The story Night is based on a true story.
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Today scientists use the word race as to those who share a ancestry.