re: #251 Obdicut

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.

yep. Just read up on the Dreyfus Affair to see it active in France pre-WW I. (Not mass murder mind you, but rampant anti-Semetism coming out in the military, media, etc.)