A reply to an angry letter.

... HUMANITIES GCSE COURSEWORK ASSIGNMENT A REPLY TO AN ANGRY LETTER Dear Editor, I have read your letter with great interest and astonishment. Whilst your views are debatable, I would like to reply to five particular points that I feel strongly about. May I begin with your first paragraph concerning the Jewish people and National Holocaust Day. The Jewish people were killed by the Nazis and that in itself is something really not to forget. Race hatred was at its height under Hitler's government in March 1933 when there was a general boycott of Jewish shops and enterprises. They continued to abuse and defame Jews in violent terms. The idea was that each race should remain 'pure' since Nazis believed that from the mixture of races resulted "not nations but ethnic chaos." The half million Jews in Germany in 1933 had been reduced by about 150,000. In 1942 only 255,000 remained and after Hitler seized

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