Muhannad Barghouthi

Professor Wertzo-Orbaugh
UWRT 1102
25 January 2015
Research Response 3
My research process was not too hard. I picked a topic that would not be too challenging
to find information about but also something that I have prior knowledge in. this led me to AntiSemitism and the media relations. At first I just searched anti-Semitism on google and went
through what came up. I was not looking for anything in particular but a reoccurring theme that
came up was the holocaust fused with the term. I went through these articles to see which one
would be the best. They all really painted the same picture. They said the same things with some
articles having more historical context than others. Some of them have more examples recently.
But for the majority they all explained what anti-Semitism is and more general information. Lots
of the articles I read were published recently and were involving current affairs. I tried to steer
away from them because this topic is more about the holocaust, not current news.
So after I did that, I looked for articles with more historical context and also dealt with
the holocaust. To do this, I searched anti-semitism and the holocaust and looked for the keyword
nazi. The articles I looked had the holocaust and anti-semitism related. Some articles were
saying how anto-semitism was the ultimate cause of the holocaust. These articles also said how
the Nazis displayed this brutal attack against the Jews. In Germany, anti-semitism became the
official government policy.

I wanted to find an article about how the Nazi Germany, anti-semitism, and the holocaust
were all related. So I prompted this by searching all of those on google. I did not skip but a few
articles. The articles I read after this search really tied in everything I wanted. They talked about
the hate-driven Nazis used anti-semitism to start the siege of a whole race. One of the few
articles I didnt look at was one that had children of the holocaust as the title. I feel as if this
could have been a good source of information because children who experienced it provide
valuable information most of the time.
The article that I decided to use has everything I was looking for. It talks about how even
before Hitler was in power; he was blaming the Jews for everything that was wrong. When he
rose to power, he used his position to attempt to fix the problem. It also talks about the poor
treatment the Jews received even before the war started. When I finished reading this I knew this
is very good information I could utilize, so I stopped looking after that.