The Jews had been persecuted for years and still hasn't stopped quite yet. Modern anti-Semitism of racism originally began in Germany and the original term itself was said a couple years before Adolf Hitler was born. But, the roots, or the introduction of Anti-Semitism go way back into history. 

          Although the Holocaust period of time was when anti-Semitism and propaganda was used, there was also another period of time when Germany had done the same thing to the Jews in the fourth century because of religious issues. The Jews were being blamed because of their crucifixion of Jesus and soon their synonym was known as the "Christ Killer" and consequently, lead to the persecution and extermination of the Jewish population. 

          During the fourth century, Constantine the Great had made Christianity the state religion for the Byzantine Empire. As a result, the Church insisted that the religion of Christianity was the most important, main, and true religion and had forced and demanded  the Jews to convert into Christianity. The Jews were unable to give up their faith easily, and soon the Church had used the power of the State and ensured they would have the Jews suffer great misery. Also the Jews were unable to own their citizenship, and worst of all, were viewed as devils who are cursed by God. By the end of the fourth century, conditions of the Jewish discrimination had taken a turn for the worse. 

          The popular and enduring of the ethnic hatred and discrimination of the Jewish had built up very quickly. Whenever the Jewish had suffered or had misfortune, people believed that was just a curse from God. Not only God, but the Church and the State were taking legislative steps to ensure Jewish misery. (During Hitler's times, he had imitated the same steps to ensure the suffering and persecution of the Jewish population)  The Jews were offered a choice of baptism or death and the Jews people who had refused baptism and chose death to sacrifice themselves were often seen as heroes and set examples. 

          During the Holocaust, the Jews weren't given an option; the only right they had was to die. The Jews were also criticized, not only for their religion, but also their race and culture. Hitler had strongly believed that the Jews didn't deserve to live and should be exterminated.

          Similar events that had happened during the Holocaust had already happened in England, France, and Spain during different periods of time before the actual time of the Holocaust years. When events like this happened in the past, as far as concerned, no one had said what they had believed what was right or what was wrong because the same/similar events continuously repeated what had happened.