Way too much attention has focused on Hitlerite Germany, as in some way beyond the pale of evil, and somehow qualitatively apart from the long tradition of intermittently violent anti Semitism that not only informed, but really largely defined, Christianity, and Christian Europe, for 2,000 years.
It had never ever been mainly a German thing, anti Semitism.
One has only to look, briefly, at the Dreyfus Affair, in the 1890s, a few short decades before, in Catholic France, an enormously long, politically troubling, affair for all concerned, to notice this fact.
Going farther back, as Carroll did, maybe not the greatest account, but there aren't so many, other events, over a long period, are chronicled for the layman.
Few Americans could read an 1,100 page book, out of their narrow specialty, for pleasure. I sympathize with them.
Many of these countries killed, expelled, or forced conversion on their entire Jewish populations.
It was not by any means a new or unusual thing, by the time of the 30s in Germany. Spain and England had each done the same. Others as well.
The Crusades, a thousand years ago, were begun with gatherings of Crusaders across Europe, often first killing sometimes whole Jewish enclaves in European communities, as a prelude to going East to fight the Muslim Infidel.
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