Marek: Darius and the rest, Indeed 'uniqueness' is a well-worn expression, indeed, as Disraeli himself put it, "There are lies, there are damned lies, and there are statistics!". The issue however is not DO THE STATS ADD UP???, but more, WHY WAS SOMETHING ON SUCH A SCALE EVER PERMITTED??!!......by decent, supposedly Christian folk? The answer lies really in several deep failures within the German culture up until (and including!!) that time; the failure of a grassroots Christianity of 'Love Thy Neighbor' to fuse with the burgeoning ideas of human equality propounded by the French Englightenment, i.e. democracy. The failure of the Prussian State to industrialize ever so much earlier than was the case in the German Empire, lagging far behind England, France and the States. The failure of the Catholic Church primarily, to stem the tide of political and cultural antisemitism BEFORE it culminated in ideological/biological antisemitism, e.g. the Jew demonized now as a sort of bacillus and no longer as even human! The Jew became viewed therefore as a dangerous harbinger of unneeded change, from the handmade to the mass-producing factory, the end of the ease of life hitherto. Jews were seen almost like Republicans are demonized in American nowadays, as fervid, puritanical kill joys, who want to destroy a formerly enjoyed quality of life. Sadly for the Jews, noone came along to separate the myth from the reality and most Europeans simply jumped on the bandwagon of hate All you can brag about is the holocaust, typical Jew, you attempt to hog and capitalize on holocaust as a business.
Your every word fills me with disgust.
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