@RusA #9858111 I once saw a video about the grandchildren of queen Victoria of England, before the WWI, the emperor of Germany was one of the Queen Victoria grandchildren, and the King Edward something of England is his Uncle, and the King of England doesn't like his nephew hates about the Jew, , so...the Jewish hate already started before the first world war.
Yes, that would have been King Edward VII, Queen Victoria's oldest son. Kaiser Wilhelm II was her grandson, the son of her daughter Victoria who was married off to Kaiser Friedrich III. Victoria had nine children and 40 grandchildren, most of whom she married off to the other royal families of Europe. Her logic was that if everyone belonged to one big happy family, then the wars that plagued Europe throughout its history would be a thing of the past. Yeah, that didn't work out so well once Wilhelm decided that "Mom liked you best!" As you say, World War I was as much a squabble among family members as it was anything else.
And yes, Hitler's antisemitism was by no means a novelty - oppression and segregation of Jews go well back into the Middle Ages. (The word "ghetto", now meaning an impoverished urban area inhabited by people of color who have little desire or means to leave, originally referred to the walled areas of Italian cities where Jews were restricted to live, often being locked in at night.) He just put it in high gear and approved the ideas of others about how to deal with "the Jewish question".
As much as we Lutherans love to quote Martin Luther's writings, there's one thing that he wrote we'd rather forget all about. After it became clear to him that the Jewish population was not going to be flocking to his new religion anytime soon, he wrote a vicious book against them with the colorful title of Von den Jüden und iren Lügen (About the Jews and Their Lies). Yes, it's just about as bad as you would expect, and certainly influenced Nazi thinking on the subject.
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I once saw a video about the grandchildren of queen Victoria of England, before the WWI, the emperor of Germany was one of the Queen Victoria grandchildren, and the King Edward something of England is his Uncle, and the King of England doesn't like his nephew hates about the Jew, , so...the Jewish hate already started before the first world war.
Yes, that would have been King Edward VII, Queen Victoria's oldest son. Kaiser Wilhelm II was her grandson, the son of her daughter Victoria who was married off to Kaiser Friedrich III. Victoria had nine children and 40 grandchildren, most of whom she married off to the other royal families of Europe. Her logic was that if everyone belonged to one big happy family, then the wars that plagued Europe throughout its history would be a thing of the past. Yeah, that didn't work out so well once Wilhelm decided that "Mom liked you best!"
And yes, Hitler's antisemitism was by no means a novelty - oppression and segregation of Jews go well back into the Middle Ages. (The word "ghetto", now meaning an impoverished urban area inhabited by people of color who have little desire or means to leave, originally referred to the walled areas of Italian cities where Jews were restricted to live, often being locked in at night.) He just put it in high gear and approved the ideas of others about how to deal with "the Jewish question".
As much as we Lutherans love to quote Martin Luther's writings, there's one thing that he wrote we'd rather forget all about. After it became clear to him that the Jewish population was not going to be flocking to his new religion anytime soon, he wrote a vicious book against them with the colorful title of Von den Jüden und iren Lügen (About the Jews and Their Lies).