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To: Arkansas Toothpick
Agree with the concept but you have your "polarity" reversed.

Remember, the Germans hated the Jews because they had money.

62 posted on 05/31/2011 9:45:27 AM PDT by Aevery_Freeman (The Sixteenth Amendment - a.k.a. - The Slavery Amendment)
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To: Aevery_Freeman
I don't know if it is fair to make the blanket statement that "the Germans hated the Jews."

Speaking of the 1918-1945 period generally, there obviously were some Germans who hated the Jews (Hitler wasn't the only one blaming the German defeat on the supposed "stab in the back" by Jews and socialists), and without more generalized anti-Semitism of a less intense character (prejudices short of hatred) the Nazis might never have come to power, but the Holocaust happened because Adolf Hitler hated the Jews, not because the Germans in general demanded it. The Germans of the 1933-1945 period who did hate the Jews may have done so in many cases because they had been bombarded with Nazi propaganda and believed it. But it is a jump to assume all the Germans hated Jews.

133 posted on 05/31/2011 2:54:03 PM PDT by Verginius Rufus
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