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Recipient of the Fall 2007 Senior Seminar Achievement Award for best Senior Research thesis from the University of Florida. It explores the role of Zionism in the Holocaust and how the failure of 19th century Jewish Emancipation lead to the Jews fostering a nationalistic ideology. The paper also describes Hitler's rise to power and the crumbling of the Wiemar Republic lead to Nazism's swift emergence and how these factors transformed the role of Zionism to both Eastern and Western European Jews.