[PapaBear3625]

It is true, that before the Nazis came to power, Germany was regarded as one of the least anti-semitic countries in Europe, especially when compared to France, and even England.

Yep. Pre-WWI Germany was pretty hospitable to Jews, as was Poland. We can be very confident of that because of the number of Jews who went to live there. Given a choice, people tend to move to where they feel welcome and safe, and where they can earn a living.

What changed? After WWI, the Russian Bolshevik Revolution, a communist takeover of Hungary by Bela Kun the 1919 Spartacist Rebellion in Germany -- the German middle class were afraid of a Russian-style takeover resulting in mass murder. Hitler came to power by promising to fight any Communist takeover. Hitler said the Jews were behind Communism, and so it became easy to convince the German people to round them up.

[Verginius Rufus]

Robert Gellately's book Lenin, Stalin and Hitler brings out how much Hitler linked Jews and Bolshevism in his rhetoric. Most of the Bolsheviks were not Jewish, but a few prominent figures were (like Trotsky), and a few of the revolutionary leaders elsewhere were Jewish, as of course Marx and Engels had been--just enough to lend plausibility to Hitler's claims (he vastly inflated the actual percentage of Jews among the Bolsheviks but of course most people wouldn't know that his numbers were fabricated).