(April 11, 2017 at 9:58 pm)mh.brewer Wrote: Can we agree that, prior to Hitlers german state, christians had committed atrocities and genocide? Or is that also something that christians would rather sweep under the rug.
And, while we are at it, can we also agree that anti-semitism pre-dated Hitler in the fine xtian lands of Germany?
http://web.mnstate.edu/shoptaug/AntiFrames.htm
Quote:In 1871, Germany became a unified nation. A new nationalist fever, coupled with additional strains as the young nation struggled to balance rapid industrial growth, social change and traditional ways, led to an increase in social stress and class division. Several respectable German leaders exacerbated traditional anti-Semitism by pointing to the Jews as a principal cause of the upheavals. Historian Heinrich Treitschke wrote a long essay in 1879 in which he claimed that the fundamental differences between German Jews and Christians could not be reconciled, and that the Jews had "usurped too large a place in our life."
Soon, readers of Treitschke's essay and other anti-Semitic tracts were advocating legal measures against Germany's Jewish population. By the mid-1890s several laws had been proposed in the German Reichstag to limit Jewish education, participation in the professions, and other rights of German citizens. Although none of these measures had been enacted, prejudice against Judaism in Germany was growing.
