... States. Just as there were many racists in the United States who opposed civil rights for Afro-Americans, there were all too many anti-Semites in Europe. The most significant variation between traditional anti-Semitism and the philosophy of the Nazis was that the whole basis for the anti-Semitism was different. Previous anti-Semitism had been based upon religious convictions ... causing hatred of Jews: the theories of "eugenics" and "social Darwinism". These theories were already very common in Europe and soon became the building blocks of the Nazi Philosophy. They combined the politica...

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