Americans’ Opinions about Nazi Ant-Catholicism and Anti-Semitism in the mid-1930s
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Start Date
29-4-2021 12:00 AM
End Date
29-4-2021 12:00 AM
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Major: Biology
Faculty Mentor: Dr. Darra Mulderry, Center for Engaged Learning
The 1930s in Germany were a time of great social, political, and economic distress. Germany was suffering from terrible economic depression, a democratic republic that was reaching its breaking point, and constant political conflict. In 1933 Adolf Hitler overthrew the German government and established a dictatorship. After declaring himself Chancellor, Hitler’s Nazi ideologies, such as anti-Semitism and anti-Catholicism, progressively became a reality and were enforced by his fellow Nazis and some of the German people. During my research, I examined American opinions on the rise of anti-Semitism and anti-Catholicism in Nazi Germany from July through December 1935 as documented in The New York Times. The voice of American opinion in the Times against the Nazi’s anti-religious campaign showed skepticism regarding the Party’s “confusing” ideals in the persecution of Jews and Catholics in Germany as well as critical against the growing violence and discrimination of these religious groups.
Americans’ Opinions about Nazi Ant-Catholicism and Anti-Semitism in the mid-1930s
Major: Biology
Faculty Mentor: Dr. Darra Mulderry, Center for Engaged Learning
The 1930s in Germany were a time of great social, political, and economic distress. Germany was suffering from terrible economic depression, a democratic republic that was reaching its breaking point, and constant political conflict. In 1933 Adolf Hitler overthrew the German government and established a dictatorship. After declaring himself Chancellor, Hitler’s Nazi ideologies, such as anti-Semitism and anti-Catholicism, progressively became a reality and were enforced by his fellow Nazis and some of the German people. During my research, I examined American opinions on the rise of anti-Semitism and anti-Catholicism in Nazi Germany from July through December 1935 as documented in The New York Times. The voice of American opinion in the Times against the Nazi’s anti-religious campaign showed skepticism regarding the Party’s “confusing” ideals in the persecution of Jews and Catholics in Germany as well as critical against the growing violence and discrimination of these religious groups.
