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Friday, October 18, 2013
PERIOD 6: THE LONGEST HATRED
You recently viewed the PBS documentary The Longest Hatred in class. What did you learn that you did not know before watching the film?
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Megan Whittles
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What I did know before watching the film, "The Longest Hatred," was that the reason the Holocaust happened was because the Christians hated Jews because of their non-belief in Jesus. I did not know that for years before and during this long time event, the Christians would relate the Jews to being of the Devil. They would relate them to Greed, to the killing of a little Christian girl, to drinking Christian blood, etc. I am a Christian myself, but knowing that this is what they had thought about other human beings is just terrible. Jesus is about forgiveness of sin, and I do believe that even if you die without the knowledge or belief in him, he will still forgive you. All humans are created under God and no one is created by the devil. I had also learned from this film that Hitler was known of creating speeches that were kind of in a way hypnotizing of Christians to make them believe that what he was doing to the Jews was okay. That to me is just unbelievable and I do believe that Hitler was the one who had been hypnotized himself by the devil.
I learned a lot during this documentary about anti-Antisemitism,and the hatred of Jewish people in Europe and how it has spread worldwide.It was interesting all the hidden ways revisionists tried to cover up the extremely vulgar past of Jew-bashing.Also when the idea that Jews murdering Jesus,making the Catholic Pope having Jews wear yellow badges back in 1215. I learned Martin Luther’s rabid anti-Jewish words in 1519 led the creation of “scientifically justified” racism that put Jews at the bottom in 1879.
After watching this documentary I reaized that I unfortunately knew a lot less than i though about the origins of the antisemitism attitude in germany. As i am very close to my catholic religoun I was shocked to hear that christians accused jews simply based off of their non-beilef in Jesus. I knew that the Jews killed Jesus on the cross but I was unaware of the extent to which the christians criticized them for such an action. I have seen it as Jesus's sacrifice for his people and our world rather than a betrayel of the Christians. I was also interested and angered in the basis of antisemitism. This hatred towards jews came from their different political views. This difference caused people to judge them for their appearence and precense in germany even though they were physicaly no different than everyone else.
The Longest Hatred was a very interesting film. Before watching this film I had no idea that the reason the Jews were hated was because Christians had blamed them for the death of Jesus and that Christians had associated Jews with the Devil. It is really sad that the Christians were blaming the Jews for acts they did not make and their ancestors might have made. I also didn’t know that the Jews were hated for such a long time. I had thought this hatred began around the time of the Nazis and Hitler.
I learned a lot of things that I never knew before I watched this film. I learned that the Jews were hated basically since the beginning of time, and Christians hated them which came to built a foundation for the Nazi propaganda. I learned how poorly they were treated because of cartoons and daily rumors. They were thought to be in close contact with the devil but really they were normal people like the rest of us. The hatred of the Jews was based on the wrong thinking cause that they were "different" people with different ideas and opinions
I didn't know that the hatred of the Jews started with the Christians. And that's the Christians basically created a base for the nazis. I was also surprised that the pope was neutral and didn't go against hitler or his followers. It was strange to me how no one stood up to hitter when he was so open about his intentions with the Jews.
What I did not know before watching the film, "The Longest Hatred," was how Jews were blamed for the death of Jesus and that Christians had associated Jews with the Devil. Of course I knew that Jew were always an outlet for hatred since the very beginning but I wasn’t aware of the severity that it started with. Another thing I found to be interesting was that Christians actually tried to change the past so that Jesus would not be affiliated with his Jewish heritage any longer. Following that they did they same thing to Mary, but it was easier to do with her because she wasn’t mentioned too much in the torah, unlike Christ. The Longest Hatred was a very interesting film that took me by surprise by bringing up all these new facts that I didn’t already know.
I didn't realize that the hatred of Jews has been around since Christianity. I thought that all Jewish stereotypes or discrimination had sprouted from the Holocaust and Nazi Germany. Never once did it occur to me that this hate is around 2000 years old. I found it interesting learning the real background of Jewish discrimination from the very beginning when Jews killed Jesus Christ, even though Jews nowadays should not have to pay for what happened 2000 years ago, it just doesn't make sense.
I was very shocked when I saw this film in class. It just greatly surprised me how mankind can be so inhumane towards each other. It was so easy for these people to believe the lies full of ignorance that these ignorant religious leaders put forth on their people. It truly lead to them contradicting and going against their true faith. These people were using the Jews as scapegoats in order that they may feel more superior in their own beliefs. The Christians who were in this era were truly ignorant and did not comprehend the true meaning of their own faith. I am also starting to understand how easy it is for a lie to seem like the truth when everyone else believes in it and practices it. In the film, it showed Hitler being a strong leader, whom everyone in his assembly seemed to respect and look upon with honor. Therefore it was very easy for others to blindly follow him because he was accepted by what seemed almost everyone in Germany.
After watching "The Longest Hatred" I was surprised as to how little I knew. Apart from the clash between Jews and Christians, I didn't really know much more in detail. The fact that Christians would be so hateful towards Jews purely because their disbelief in Jesus is absurd. Considering myself to be pretty close to my Protestant religion, it was hard to hear that people of my same religion would act in that way. I was appalled by the images dipicting Jews as the devil, or of them eating fecies of animals. It's all so inhuman. To me, I was reminded of te KKK and white supremacy. The propaganda again the "them" hit maybe people and invited the public to blindly join in. Another thing I wasn't really aware of, is the longevity of the hated. It dated back for centuries! It truly is the "longest hatred." My parents and friends I discussed with all shared the same beliefs too.. It's so hard to wrap my head around the centuries of hate, hitting its boiling point when the holocaust began.
I learned a lot from watching "The Longest Hatred". I was completely unaware of the thousands of years of the hatred of Jews by Christians. I had always thought that the Nazis had invented many of the practices they used such as forcing the Jews to wear a yellow Star of David, massacring them in huge numbers, and restricting them from many areas of the workforce. It was awful to see how this was a result of an interpretation of the bible and because they believed that the Jews had killed Jesus. They even stretched this to make it seem as though the Jewish people were like the devil.
I didn't know that the derivation of the hatred for the jews was from the catholics. I didn't know that they condemned the jews for killing Jesus. That they blamed them because they were the ones who crucified him on the cross. It makes me a little sad to call myself a catholic. I can't believe the pope was the one openly making decrees about condemning the jews. It just saddens me how the hierarchy of the church has so much power that they can start a world of hatred with one proclamation. I was also surprised that the pope was the one who made the jews wear gold starts and that, that is where Hitler got it from. It sickens me to see the images of all the dead bodies and it is very hard for me to watch many of these films. It's one of those things that makes your heart cold. I was also very appalled at how after seeing this many people slaughtered during the holocaust, that those storm troopers still support HItler and think that there was a good side to him.
Prior to watching the film "The Longest Hatred", I had always thought that Hitler and the Nazis were the first to discriminate against the Jews and use violence to do so. I had no idea that this was actually a long-lived historical phenomenon that began with Christians associating Jews with the Devil because they were the ones who crucified Jesus. According to the video, Christians even took the time to try and erase any connections that Jesus and Mary had to the Jewish religion, which I find to be very ridiculous because you can't revise history in order to make your own point valid because it is untruthful and lying is against the Christian religion. This suggests that the Christians acted in a sinful way in order to prove that the Jewish people were a sinful group. I was amazed by the way Christians acted towards the Jews because it seemed extremely sacrilegious. I can see now how Hitler may have seen his actions against the Jews to be justified, despite the fact that they were so horrific and gruesome, As it was said in class, it seems that Hitler and the Nazis did not invent anything new in regards to society historically.
I had never really thought about the origins of anti-Semitism. I probably just assumed that it had really started with the Nazis and the Holocaust, but I was surprised at how long ago this leads back to. I think certain parts in the documentary really emphasized that Hitler just built off the ideas of others in the past, like when it talked about Martin Luther's writings about separating the Jews, and how Hitler was influenced by this and twisted it in what ended up being the concentration and death camps. Something else I learned and that was really fascinating was theories and ideas about how certain stereotypes about Jews got started. For example, since a lot of them worked at pawn shops, Christians would come away from interactions with them making assumptions about Jews and money and then pass that on for generations.
After watching "The Longest Hatred" I learned how much the christians had hated the jews. I never knew that even before Hitler there was already such hatred for the jews. I also didn't know how people said the jews were one with the devil. Being Jewish now-a-days its hard to imagine being called many awful things just because I am jewish. Overall it amazes me how hateful peopel could be towards a religion just because they don't agree with them.
When watching "The Longest Hatred" I learned that the Nazi's, specifically Adolf Hitler, did not come up with the idea of applying hatred to the Jewish population. This hatred goes way back to the time of the Romans, when Christianity took over and the Jewish people were repressed. I found some of the Jewish religious methods shocking, such as their sacrificing a child. I was always under the impression that Adolf Hitler was the person who originally established hatred to the Jewish in his book Mein Kampf. I found this documentary very interesting and realize how complicated religion can be.
I was shocked when I watched this. I couldn't believe some of the cruel things that the Jewish people went through. I think its so sad that they basically got there religions and beliefs taken away from them. This helped me get a better grip on some of the reasons why Hitler was the man he was. I was surprised because i didn't know about the strong hatred that the Christians had. It is awful that they associated a group of people with the devil and because of that they tortured them.
This type of documentary is one of the main reasons I joined this class. I have learned so much about American history over the past sixteen years of my life, but when it comes to WW2, I feel totally ignorant. And that frusturates me. It sickens me that I truly know the bare minimum of what went on during world war two, and truly haven't been taught how something like the holocaust could have happened. And this documentary showed exactly how the propaganda worked. By constantly associating jews with the devil, the German people no longer thought they were killing people, but rather they were killing the devil. And it's sickening that people could be persuaded so seemingly easily to do such disastrous things. And thinking about this instantly brought me back to the Rwandan genocide, and how perpetrators said that they genuinely felt they were not killing humans, it was as if they were "stepping on ants". This documentary horrified me, but i'm also very glad I was able to watch it.
After watching this film I learned a lot of new things that i never knew before. The things that I was hearing and watching were extremely hard to watch. I couldnt stand how horribly my religion was treating jews. The fact that they thought the jews were with the devil is absolutely terrible. Also, when Hitler made his speeches he was influenceing the people he was talking to by hating on the christians and saying bad stuff about them so he could make the jews feel like they were doing the right thing which so terrible. Im glad i was able to experience and view soemthing that i never have before and i learned a lot of new things that i didnt know before, which was very sad.
It always seemed impossible to me that anyone could view the holocaust and be supportive of what the Nazis had done to the Jews. After seeing how much support there was for anti-semitism at the time, I began to realize that this was, in fact, very believeable. The Jews were condemned and blamed for all of society's problems. Even after all this time, it shocked me that some Nazi supporters still stand by their previous decision of supporting the Nazis in the Holocaust. I can't believe that anyone still living, whether from that time or now, could still see it justifiable for the orchestrated killings of the millions of Jews during the Holocaust to happen. I can't imagine how so many people supported such an insane cause that led to such an event but if it was able to happen then, who says it can't happen again?
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What I did know before watching the film, "The Longest Hatred," was that the reason the Holocaust happened was because the Christians hated Jews because of their non-belief in Jesus. I did not know that for years before and during this long time event, the Christians would relate the Jews to being of the Devil. They would relate them to Greed, to the killing of a little Christian girl, to drinking Christian blood, etc. I am a Christian myself, but knowing that this is what they had thought about other human beings is just terrible. Jesus is about forgiveness of sin, and I do believe that even if you die without the knowledge or belief in him, he will still forgive you. All humans are created under God and no one is created by the devil. I had also learned from this film that Hitler was known of creating speeches that were kind of in a way hypnotizing of Christians to make them believe that what he was doing to the Jews was okay. That to me is just unbelievable and I do believe that Hitler was the one who had been hypnotized himself by the devil.
I learned a lot during this documentary about anti-Antisemitism,and the hatred of Jewish people in Europe and how it has spread worldwide.It was interesting all the hidden ways revisionists tried to cover up the extremely vulgar past of Jew-bashing.Also when the idea that Jews murdering Jesus,making the Catholic Pope having Jews wear yellow badges back in 1215. I learned Martin Luther’s rabid anti-Jewish words in 1519 led the creation of “scientifically justified” racism that put Jews at the bottom in 1879.
After watching this documentary I reaized that I unfortunately knew a lot less than i though about the origins of the antisemitism attitude in germany. As i am very close to my catholic religoun I was shocked to hear that christians accused jews simply based off of their non-beilef in Jesus. I knew that the Jews killed Jesus on the cross but I was unaware of the extent to which the christians criticized them for such an action. I have seen it as Jesus's sacrifice for his people and our world rather than a betrayel of the Christians. I was also interested and angered in the basis of antisemitism. This hatred towards jews came from their different political views. This difference caused people to judge them for their appearence and precense in germany even though they were physicaly no different than everyone else.
The Longest Hatred was a very interesting film. Before watching this film I had no idea that the reason the Jews were hated was because Christians had blamed them for the death of Jesus and that Christians had associated Jews with the Devil. It is really sad that the Christians were blaming the Jews for acts they did not make and their ancestors might have made. I also didn’t know that the Jews were hated for such a long time. I had thought this hatred began around the time of the Nazis and Hitler.
I learned a lot of things that I never knew before I watched this film. I learned that the Jews were hated basically since the beginning of time, and Christians hated them which came to built a foundation for the Nazi propaganda. I learned how poorly they were treated because of cartoons and daily rumors. They were thought to be in close contact with the devil but really they were normal people like the rest of us. The hatred of the Jews was based on the wrong thinking cause that they were "different" people with different ideas and opinions
I didn't know that the hatred of the Jews started with the Christians. And that's the Christians basically created a base for the nazis. I was also surprised that the pope was neutral and didn't go against hitler or his followers. It was strange to me how no one stood up to hitter when he was so open about his intentions with the Jews.
What I did not know before watching the film, "The Longest Hatred," was how Jews were blamed for the death of Jesus and that Christians had associated Jews with the Devil. Of course I knew that Jew were always an outlet for hatred since the very beginning but I wasn’t aware of the severity that it started with. Another thing I found to be interesting was that Christians actually tried to change the past so that Jesus would not be affiliated with his Jewish heritage any longer. Following that they did they same thing to Mary, but it was easier to do with her because she wasn’t mentioned too much in the torah, unlike Christ. The Longest Hatred was a very interesting film that took me by surprise by bringing up all these new facts that I didn’t already know.
I didn't realize that the hatred of Jews has been around since Christianity. I thought that all Jewish stereotypes or discrimination had sprouted from the Holocaust and Nazi Germany. Never once did it occur to me that this hate is around 2000 years old. I found it interesting learning the real background of Jewish discrimination from the very beginning when Jews killed Jesus Christ, even though Jews nowadays should not have to pay for what happened 2000 years ago, it just doesn't make sense.
I was very shocked when I saw this film in class. It just greatly surprised me how mankind can be so inhumane towards each other. It was so easy for these people to believe the lies full of ignorance that these ignorant religious leaders put forth on their people. It truly lead to them contradicting and going against their true faith. These people were using the Jews as scapegoats in order that they may feel more superior in their own beliefs. The Christians who were in this era were truly ignorant and did not comprehend the true meaning of their own faith. I am also starting to understand how easy it is for a lie to seem like the truth when everyone else believes in it and practices it. In the film, it showed Hitler being a strong leader, whom everyone in his assembly seemed to respect and look upon with honor. Therefore it was very easy for others to blindly follow him because he was accepted by what seemed almost everyone in Germany.
After watching "The Longest Hatred" I was surprised as to how little I knew. Apart from the clash between Jews and Christians, I didn't really know much more in detail. The fact that Christians would be so hateful towards Jews purely because their disbelief in Jesus is absurd. Considering myself to be pretty close to my Protestant religion, it was hard to hear that people of my same religion would act in that way. I was appalled by the images dipicting Jews as the devil, or of them eating fecies of animals. It's all so inhuman. To me, I was reminded of te KKK and white supremacy. The propaganda again the "them" hit maybe people and invited the public to blindly join in. Another thing I wasn't really aware of, is the longevity of the hated. It dated back for centuries! It truly is the "longest hatred." My parents and friends I discussed with all shared the same beliefs too.. It's so hard to wrap my head around the centuries of hate, hitting its boiling point when the holocaust began.
I learned a lot from watching "The Longest Hatred". I was completely unaware of the thousands of years of the hatred of Jews by Christians. I had always thought that the Nazis had invented many of the practices they used such as forcing the Jews to wear a yellow Star of David, massacring them in huge numbers, and restricting them from many areas of the workforce. It was awful to see how this was a result of an interpretation of the bible and because they believed that the Jews had killed Jesus. They even stretched this to make it seem as though the Jewish people were like the devil.
I didn't know that the derivation of the hatred for the jews was from the catholics. I didn't know that they condemned the jews for killing Jesus. That they blamed them because they were the ones who crucified him on the cross. It makes me a little sad to call myself a catholic. I can't believe the pope was the one openly making decrees about condemning the jews. It just saddens me how the hierarchy of the church has so much power that they can start a world of hatred with one proclamation. I was also surprised that the pope was the one who made the jews wear gold starts and that, that is where Hitler got it from. It sickens me to see the images of all the dead bodies and it is very hard for me to watch many of these films. It's one of those things that makes your heart cold. I was also very appalled at how after seeing this many people slaughtered during the holocaust, that those storm troopers still support HItler and think that there was a good side to him.
Prior to watching the film "The Longest Hatred", I had always thought that Hitler and the Nazis were the first to discriminate against the Jews and use violence to do so. I had no idea that this was actually a long-lived historical phenomenon that began with Christians associating Jews with the Devil because they were the ones who crucified Jesus. According to the video, Christians even took the time to try and erase any connections that Jesus and Mary had to the Jewish religion, which I find to be very ridiculous because you can't revise history in order to make your own point valid because it is untruthful and lying is against the Christian religion. This suggests that the Christians acted in a sinful way in order to prove that the Jewish people were a sinful group. I was amazed by the way Christians acted towards the Jews because it seemed extremely sacrilegious. I can see now how Hitler may have seen his actions against the Jews to be justified, despite the fact that they were so horrific and gruesome, As it was said in class, it seems that Hitler and the Nazis did not invent anything new in regards to society historically.
I had never really thought about the origins of anti-Semitism. I probably just assumed that it had really started with the Nazis and the Holocaust, but I was surprised at how long ago this leads back to. I think certain parts in the documentary really emphasized that Hitler just built off the ideas of others in the past, like when it talked about Martin Luther's writings about separating the Jews, and how Hitler was influenced by this and twisted it in what ended up being the concentration and death camps. Something else I learned and that was really fascinating was theories and ideas about how certain stereotypes about Jews got started. For example, since a lot of them worked at pawn shops, Christians would come away from interactions with them making assumptions about Jews and money and then pass that on for generations.
After watching "The Longest Hatred" I learned how much the christians had hated the jews. I never knew that even before Hitler there was already such hatred for the jews. I also didn't know how people said the jews were one with the devil. Being Jewish now-a-days its hard to imagine being called many awful things just because I am jewish. Overall it amazes me how hateful peopel could be towards a religion just because they don't agree with them.
When watching "The Longest Hatred" I learned that the Nazi's, specifically Adolf Hitler, did not come up with the idea of applying hatred to the Jewish population. This hatred goes way back to the time of the Romans, when Christianity took over and the Jewish people were repressed. I found some of the Jewish religious methods shocking, such as their sacrificing a child. I was always under the impression that Adolf Hitler was the person who originally established hatred to the Jewish in his book Mein Kampf. I found this documentary very interesting and realize how complicated religion can be.
I was shocked when I watched this. I couldn't believe some of the cruel things that the Jewish people went through. I think its so sad that they basically got there religions and beliefs taken away from them. This helped me get a better grip on some of the reasons why Hitler was the man he was. I was surprised because i didn't know about the strong hatred that the Christians had. It is awful that they associated a group of people with the devil and because of that they tortured them.
This type of documentary is one of the main reasons I joined this class. I have learned so much about American history over the past sixteen years of my life, but when it comes to WW2, I feel totally ignorant. And that frusturates me. It sickens me that I truly know the bare minimum of what went on during world war two, and truly haven't been taught how something like the holocaust could have happened. And this documentary showed exactly how the propaganda worked. By constantly associating jews with the devil, the German people no longer thought they were killing people, but rather they were killing the devil. And it's sickening that people could be persuaded so seemingly easily to do such disastrous things. And thinking about this instantly brought me back to the Rwandan genocide, and how perpetrators said that they genuinely felt they were not killing humans, it was as if they were "stepping on ants". This documentary horrified me, but i'm also very glad I was able to watch it.
After watching this film I learned a lot of new things that i never knew before. The things that I was hearing and watching were extremely hard to watch. I couldnt stand how horribly my religion was treating jews. The fact that they thought the jews were with the devil is absolutely terrible. Also, when Hitler made his speeches he was influenceing the people he was talking to by hating on the christians and saying bad stuff about them so he could make the jews feel like they were doing the right thing which so terrible. Im glad i was able to experience and view soemthing that i never have before and i learned a lot of new things that i didnt know before, which was very sad.
It always seemed impossible to me that anyone could view the holocaust and be supportive of what the Nazis had done to the Jews. After seeing how much support there was for anti-semitism at the time, I began to realize that this was, in fact, very believeable. The Jews were condemned and blamed for all of society's problems. Even after all this time, it shocked me that some Nazi supporters still stand by their previous decision of supporting the Nazis in the Holocaust. I can't believe that anyone still living, whether from that time or now, could still see it justifiable for the orchestrated killings of the millions of Jews during the Holocaust to happen.
I can't imagine how so many people supported such an insane cause that led to such an event but if it was able to happen then, who says it can't happen again?
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