Throughout recorded history, the differences that Jewish people have had with their non-Jewish neighbors has led to difficult, and unfortunately, separate lives. Because of an imposed segregation from their non-Jewish neighbors, the Jews became the victims of suspicion, intolerance, and discrimination. Hatreds intensified inaccurate and distorted rhetoric, and produced vicious strains of anti-Semitism whose origins have been traced back to the ancient world.

Over time the Jews have valiant resisted acts of discrimination perpetrated against them. However, one can also note that throughout three major historical time periods, the Jews became the target of massacres, forced conversions, ghettoization, expulsions, and finally as with others victims of Nazi implementation of the "Final Solution."

During the 19th and 20 century, exaggerated nationalism, combined and fortified with distorted racial theories, forgeries and scurrilous and slanderous document about the Jews paved the road to Hitler and Nazi anti-Semitism and racism.

Hatred of the Jews has been humanity's greatest and longest hatred. While hatred of other groups has always existed, no hatred has been as universal, as deep, or as permanent as anti-Semitism. Anti-Semitism has long been considered a unique phenomenon.

This document printed in Nazi Germany during the 1930's was an example of a pseudo-scientific study by the Nazis attempting to prove the fallacy of the superiority of the Aryan race.

A poster printed by Der Strumer, a publication within Germany of anti-semitic materials. Julius Streicher founded and edited the most rabidly anti-semitic of Nazi publications within Nazi Germany. Der Strumer specialized in anti-Semitic cartoons, and originated the slogan in 1923 that the "Jews are our misfortune." This poster was designed to dehumanize the Jews who were posed in distorted, humiliating and disgusting positions. Also attempting to give the impression that the Jews were different, less human and pure and not as good as the German people.