This saying comes from a children's book published in Germany in 1936.

The question raised by it is how did the German people so readily accept this kind of hate policy from their leader? The answer is to be found in the cultural and historical fabric of the European community and especially in that of the German people.

There is one thread that makes all the difference to this question of why, it is called antisemitism. To answer the question presented, one must follow the thread as it weaves its way through the tapestry of anti-Jewish actions.

To understand the antisemitism and the acceptance of it by the Nazi period German population, one must first look at antisemitism and its beginnings in history prior to the Nazi period. The thread of antisemitism was most likely spun in the medieval period with the conflict between the Christian church and the Jews. European antisemitism is a natural result of the "religion" of Christianity. By the word religion, the idea of tradition and pious thinking is inferred, not the teaching of Jes

it proved an easy task to liberate those who had nonetheless been taken into

In September of 1935, the Nuremberg Laws defined precisely who was a Jew or partial Jew, and enacted a set of laws restricting a multitude of Jewish rights. After the Nuremberg Laws, German attacks on Jews declined through 1937.

We have seen with our own eyes and heard with our own ears that the living

Regarding Jews, the medieval legacy to the modern world was, in Joshua Tractenberg's words, "a hatred so vast and abysmal, so intense, that it leaves one gaping for comprehension." Nevertheless the Jews were left alive because the church, in recognition of Christianity's and Judaism's common heritage, accepted the Jews' right to live and practice their religion, though they were condemned to live as less free persons, because of their rejection of Jesus. The Church did not want to ultimately kill the Jews, but wanted to convert them.

The Christians thought that if the Jews- the people of God- avoided the Messiah God had promised them, then something was wrong. Either the Messiah was false, or the people had gone astray- tempted by the Devil. The Christians could not even think about the first option, so they chose to believe the last: The Jews were religiously wayward in a world where religion and the moral order were of social importance, and deviation from it was a serious sin. Christians saw themselves and their religion as better than Judaism. Therefore, Jews in a religious sense should disappear from the earth. They ought to become Christians. But Jews would not, which meant that Christians and Jews shared a common heritage. The most important part of this heritage was the Jewish Bible. Jews and Christians had conflicting interpretations of the Bible. This produced additional pressure for Christians to discredit and belittle the Jews. If Jews were right then Christians were wrong.

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