re: #250 Vicious Babushka

Here is an article from 1851, describing how Jews are excluded from Switzerland. Archaic 19th-century language, but you should get the general idea.

I think the concentration on the Nazis as the big enemies of the Jews have kind of lulled people into thinking their antisemtism was unusual in Europe at that time. It wasn’t. Luther’s antisemitism was especially virulent, but you can find virulent antisemitism in other countries, too. If Germany had ‘won’ WWI and imposed crippling sanctions on France, then France might have been the one to get all fascist, scapegoat Jews, and produce some Hitler-type.

Mass murder and persecution of Jews in Europe wasn’t new; the Nazis industrialized it. That was the only real difference.