Re: My Hate List (Revised)

Am Sonntag000009, 09.02.2025 um 10:06 schrieb Bertietaylor:

If antisemitism was not so hot in Germany why were the Jews persecuted
by the Nazis?

Germany is quite a young nation and was created by fusing together more than 1000 different tiny states and cities.
All of the entities had their own culture and history.
Now Prussia was by far the largest country and had a different history than - for instance - Bavaria.
Bavarians and Prussians reacted very hostile towards each other for most parts of German history.
The Nazis were now concentrated in the south and had Nuremberg as 'capital', Munich as 'center of the movement' and Berchtesgaden as center of administration, where Hitler himself lived in his mountain retreat 'Obersalzberg'.
This is related to Catholicism vs. Protestantism, because Bavarians are mainly Catholics and Prussians were mainly protestants.
Prussia had, as one of the few countries of that time, religious freedom, but others had not.
Especially the Catholic Church was against this development called 'secularization' and fought bitter 'culture wars' with Prussia.
Since Judaism and Protestantism are actually more related than Catholicism and Judaism, the Prussians regarded the Jews not as hostile, while fighting with the Pope.
They also had the wish to attract immigrants from other countries, hence anti-semitism would have detrimental to their plans.
But this was different in other Germanic countries.
And it was also different in the adjacent nations, especially in Russia and Poland.
Antisemitism started in Germany mainly after WWI, because there existed a common believe, that WWI was a fabrication of the Jews and the international bankers.
TH