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=**Germany & World War 1 .**= ==The Russian invasion of East Prussia occurred during the First world war, lasting from August to September 1914. As well as being the natural course for the Russians to take upon the declaration of war with Germany, it was also an attempt to focus German military eyes on the Eastern front, as opposed to the Western front, where France was increasingly under the strain of her own German invasion. Despite the overwhelming numerical superiority (250,000 Germans against 800,000 Russians) invasion ended with a crushing defeat of the Russian army, Russian losses were 8 times more than German. ==



===The social and economic upheaval that followed World War I powerfully destabilized Germany's fledgling democracy and gave rise to many radical right wing parties in Weimar Germany. Particularly detrimental in connection with the harsh provisions of Versailles was the rampant conviction among many in the general population that Germany had been "stabbed in the back" by the "November criminals", those who had helped to form the new Weimar government and broker the peace which Germans had so desperately wanted, but which had ended so disastrously in the Versailles Treaty. ===

= Nazi Party =

==on January 30, 1933, Adolf Hitler began laying the foundations of the Nazi state. Guided by racist and authoritarian principles, the Nazis eliminated individual freedoms and pronounced the creation of a Volk Community —a society which would, in theory, transcend class ==

= = = = = Antisemitism =

==Antisemitism may be manifested in many ways, ranging from expressions of hatred of or discrimination against individual Jews to organized violent attacks by mobs, state police, or even military attacks on entire Jewish communities. Although the term did not come into common usage until the 19th century, it is now also applied to historic anti-Jewish incidences. Notable instances of persecuition include the programs witch perceded the first crusadein 1096, the expulsion from england in 1290, the of spanish jews massacres in 1391, the in 1492, Cossack massacres in Ukrain of 1648–1657, various programs in imperial russia between 1821 and 1906, the 1894–1906 drefus affair in France, the Holocust in German-occupied Europe, official Soviet anti-jewish policies and Arab and Muslim involvement in the Jewish exdous from arab and muslim countries. ==