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How important was the Holocaust in the establishment of an independent state of Israel?
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How important was the Holocaust in the establishment of an independent state of Israel? During the nineteenth century there was the demand for Jewish people to have a country of their own. This was influenced by the growth of nationalism. By the 1920s many Jewish people started to immigrate to Palestine. The number of people emigrating had increased by 1935 due to the Nazi government in Germany. The Holocaust was one of the factors that led to the state of Israel. Nationalism was based on the idea that a people who speak the same language, share the same culture, and are from the same ethnic group ought to have their own state. Some nations like French or Spanish had their own states, while others like Germans only managed to get theirs after many years of struggle. In 1884 a key figure who believed Jewish people should have their own country was...
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