If any one of us time-travelled to the coffeehouses of Germany or Austria of 1905, or even 1925, and told the Jewish intelligentsia there drinking coffee and smoking big cigars, that in one generation hence, Germany would have nearly wiped out European Jewry, they'd have either laughed themselves sick or chased you out with a stick.

That a Holocaust would descend on them, not even rivalled by Medieval Christo-European religious Jew-hate...

Of all European cultures, Jews felt completely integrated into German and Austrian culture...

Yiddish, their local European language, was a hybrid of Hebrew and German.

German and Austrian Jews were the shining lights of German science, art, and literature - the epitome of all that it meant to be German or Austrian.

And yet, the persistence of ancient religio-European Jew-hate had not died with knights in shining armour, or kings ruling by divine right, or Jesus reigning supreme.

Israeli and diaspora Jews fully understand this, and likely it will serve as a lesson to them that, unlike the Reich, will last 1000 years.

Likely, the Centralverein deutscher Staatsbürger jüdischen Glaubens could sense something evil in the German air even back in 1905.

freediver wrote on Sep 23^rd, 2025 at 8:35am:

You know you don't deserve good-faith answers to bad-faith questions...

A couple of decades running a politics forum and you still respond like an uppity teengirl.