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Hitler turned the German people against the Jews who allowed to work in the banking industry. Though the Roman Empire ultimately allowed loans with restricted interest rates and the Catholic Church in medieval Europe forbade the charging of interest at any rate. Religious prohibitions on usury have been asserted within the tenet that charging interest on a loan is a sin. The Nazis used biblical scripture to smear them as participating in the sin of usury:

Proverbs 28:8

8 Whoever increases wealth by taking interest or profit from the poor amasses it for another, who will be kind to the poor.

1 Timothy 6:9-10

9 Those who want to get rich fall into temptation and a trap and into many foolish and harmful desires that plunge people into ruin and destruction. 10 For the love of money is a root of all kinds of evil. Some people, eager for money, have wandered from the faith and pierced themselves with many griefs.

All played into Hitler’s diabolical plan to use human self-righteousness to manipulate the German Christians into hating the Jews.

That evil from Hitler has persisted over ninety years.