Marr, Wilhelm

German agitator

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origin of term “antisemitism”

  • Antisemitism demonstration in Paris
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    …1879 by the German agitator Wilhelm Marr to designate the anti-Jewish campaigns underway in central Europe at that time. Nazi antisemitism, which culminated in the Holocaust, had a racist dimension in that it targeted Jews because of their supposed biological characteristics—even those who had themselves converted to other religions or…

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