[h.a. cherev]

I said that one has to reach back to the Middles ages to find an example of Christians who were incited to violence against the Jews by a passion play.

I didn't read that in your original post. My mistake.

As for the Holocaust, only two things were required. An implacable and inexplicable hatred of Jews by Hitler and the opportunity afforded by conditions of total war.

That's pretty interesting. How long have you been studying the Holocaust?

[RobbyS]

Modern Germany history for some time. As for Hitler, the fact is that Mein Kampf tellls us all we need to know about Hitler. He meant what he said, as incredible it seemed to his readers. He thought that Jewish bloood literally poisoned that of the peoples with whom it was mixed, so they were not simply aninferior race but one that undermined the creative spark of the noble or Aryan race. The only remedy for this contamination was extermination, root and branch. He regarded it as providential that the national interest of Germany lat in the direction of the greatest concentration of Jews in Europe.