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Old 06-01-2006, 05:39 PM   #22
coheneran
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Originally Posted by Das Übermensch
Except that never happened... Hating the Jews was simply a European tradition/pastime dating back to the middle ages at the least, if not into Antiquity...
Yes, but not on such a scale. Sure, over a drink, you'd probably often hear "Those damn Jews, stealing our money" but at the end of the day, those people would go to the Jewish banker and ask him for advice, or the Jewish jeweller (those words must have something in common, it intrigues me) for a wedding ring. But under Nazism, even speaking to a Jew was uncommon unless it was followed by a spit or a curse or was insulting through and through.
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