POLISH ARMY SET TO INVADE LITHUANIA UNLESS DEMANDS ARE ACCEPTED TODAY (Real Time + 70 Years)

“Lol, I don’t know how to provide links and such, but in 5 minutes using google I learned that in 1910 93% of German jews were native born, in 1925 only 80% were. i.e the pecentage of foreigners in the jewish population thereby had tripled.”

Well, whatever else, at least we have one thing in common — I haven't figured out html or links either...

But I can google, and it doesn't take long to come up with the number 500,000 Jews in ALL OF GERMANY in 1925.

And I can easily do simple math too (ain't ah clever?).

So, what are we really talking about here:
In 1910 in ALL OF GERMANY, there were about 35,000 foreign born Jews.
In 1925, in ALL OF GERMANY, there were about 100,000 foreign born Jews.
And you are going to tell me with a straight face, this difference of 65,000 foreign born Jews in a country of 70+ million was some kind of huge problem?

You're joking, right?

My point from the beginning was the “unknown” effect the flight from the Russian/Polish ghettos into the political and economic chaos of conquered Germany may have had.
I never suggested that German anti-semitism was created or radically inflamed by the numbers (which despite your insistence otherwise are impossible to calculate authoratively).
Perhaps the issue that the Berlin governments which were subservient to the League Powers of France, England, Poland could not control its borders early on led citizens to consider the Nazis, who vocally repudiated the Versailles/League system.
I understand that such questions are not easily suffered by some and before I get branded a holocaust denier, I will submit here.

“Perhaps the issue that the Berlin governments which were subservient to the League Powers of France, England, Poland could not control its borders early on led citizens to consider the Nazis, who vocally repudiated the Versailles/League system.
I understand that such questions are not easily suffered by some and before I get branded a holocaust denier, I will submit here.”

First, I promise, I will not accuse you of being a “holocaust denier” until and unless you start denying the Holocaust. Then we are into a whole different debate... could get ugly...

What we are really talking about here, the “debate” you've raised is, what were factors contributing to the rise of Nazism? You have opined that:

“Utterly unknown is the effect of the waves of penniless, illiterate, often diseased who, fleeing from the ghettos of Russia, {now Poland}, through the porous, illogical Versailles borders into the remnants of a prostate, democratic Germany, bore on the eventual rise of Nazism.”

But, on further examination, it turns out your “waves” were more like small ripples at the shore of a pond — fewer than 100,000 in a country of over 70 million

When the German economy was suffering millions unemployed, to suggest that these few immigrants were a root cause of the problem is, well, let's be honest now, and speak the truth... just what is that suggestion?

That's right, it's Nazi propaganda. Sorry.

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