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To: No name given

I remind you that much of Europe was deeply, openly antisemitic long before the 30s.
In the teens and 20s there were “Jews Forbidden” signs all over Germany and many other countries.
My own family got out of Russia in 1903 for this reason.
There is much about this, and plenty of pictures, in Daniel Goldhagen’s seminal book.
It is a very enlightening and well-researched read.
It’s called “Hitler’s Willing Executioners.”


4 posted on 08/30/2023 5:47:23 PM PDT by golux
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In the teens and 20s there were “Jews Forbidden” signs all over Germany and many other countries.

In the 30s and 40s certainly, but I don't know about before that. People could be anti-Semitic without putting up a lot of signs. Recall that the Nazis temporarily took down those signs during the Berlin Olympics. If they'd been common in Europe, they wouldn't have felt the need.

7 posted on 08/30/2023 5:55:20 PM PDT by x
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Maybe don’t promote central banking with runaway inflation and transgenderism?


28 posted on 08/30/2023 7:06:14 PM PDT by Extremely Extreme Extremist
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I read a book by Hans Christian Andersen who wrote about his travels across Europe, chatting with Victor Hugo, etc. It was very interesting and it saddened me that he wrote disparaging of the Jewish communities he came across, citing they were dirty, etc.


36 posted on 08/30/2023 8:38:58 PM PDT by ruthles (.)
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I would point out that Daniel Goldhagen’s book has flaws:
1. It paints all Germans with the same brush - no different than the Nazi view of painting all Jews with the same brush
2. It does not show any opposing views
3. It does not consider the “stab in the back” myth nor the rise of nationalism in the 1800s

It definitely is worth a read, but the conclusion it makes that ALL Germans were evil is not only wrong, but perpetuating a negative feedback loop.

heck, before WWI the Jews in what would be the state of Israel felt that Imperial Germany was on their side.


39 posted on 08/31/2023 5:26:53 AM PDT by Cronos (I identify as an ambulance, my pronounces are wee/woo)
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