Germans did perceive Jews as dangerous. Jews
had a ``Mordplan'' - plans for assassinations of Germans. ``Die Juden sind
unser Unglück'', Jews are our calamity, was a motto repeated a countless
number of times on newspapers and banners. Following the announcement of
a boycott of Jewish stores in 1933, a rally was held in New York's Madison
Square Garden. A counter boycott of all German made goods was threatened.
On posters attached everywhere on German cities one could read:
The Jews of the whole world are trying
to destroy Germany. German people, defend yourselves! Do not buy
from the Jews!
But Jews had to be much more dangerous than that:
The bogus Protocols of the Elders of Zion unveiled an insinuating
attempt to gain control of the whole world. No matter if the Protocols
had been exposed as false, they were something people would believe
to. At the same time, literary fiction and movies had since long purported
the idea of conspiring, evil Jews: vile creatures, devoid of real
humanity, of roots, that achieved their goals thanks to their mercilessness. |
