What role did anti-Semitism play in the ambitions and policies of the National Socialist (Nazi) Workers Party and its policies from 1920-1938? What factors explain the shifting nature and centrality of anti-Semitism to the Nazi party over time? In your answer, please define your terms and refer to assigned primary and secondary documents, as relevant, making sure to draw directly on at least one primary and one secondary document.

(We are only able to use text and lectures from class for the paper so depending on which option you choose I will send the sources this is also turned in on turnit.com so no plagiarizing)

-Present a complete introductory paragraph that defines the focus of the paper and includes a compelling thesis.
-Include topic sentences for each paragraph of the paper that substantiate your overall thesis.
-Draw on at least one assigned primary source and at least one assigned secondary source.
Please note: please do not consult or cite sources other than those listed on the syllabus for this paper. If you wish to consult another source for clarification, please use the Encyclopedia of the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Links to an external site..
-Cite relevant evidence. Please feel free to draw upon the pictures that are included in lecture outlines. Evidence includes your sources of information as well as the source of any particular quotation you reproduce. If you are citing lecture or section, so specify and include the date (e.g.; Lecture, 4/8).
-Include discussion of any conflicts in interpretation that emerged in your chosen sources and indicate which point(s) of view you find most compelling and why.

Please answer one of the following three questions:

1) What role did anti-Semitism play in the ambitions and policies of the National Socialist (Nazi) Workers Party and its policies from 1920-1938? What factors explain the shifting nature and centrality of anti-Semitism to the Nazi party over time? In your answer, please define your terms and refer to assigned primary and secondary documents, as relevant, making sure to draw directly on at least one primary and one secondary document.

2) Analyze this Nazi poster from the 1930s, discussing what it teaches us about the implementation of race science, positive and negative eugenics, and related policies under the Third Reich from 1933-1938. In your answer, please define your terms and refer to assigned primary and secondary documents, as relevant, making sure to draw directly on at least one primary and one secondary document. Please note: this question asks you to draw upon assigned readings and lectures from Week 3 of class.

(poster attached and translation below)

Text reads: The Nazi Party secures the community of people: Comrades, do you need advice and help? Turn to your local NSDAP branch.

3) To what extent was the Levy family of Salonica, the subjects of Professor Steins Family Papers, a part of the fabric of their city and state prior to the Second World War? Could they have anticipated the violence of the war, or the Holocaust? Your answer should not only refer to the book as a whole (as a secondary source) but should refer to a primary source cited/interpreted within the book for evidence. In other words, both your primary source and your secondary source should be drawn from Family Papers.

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