Get your story straight ...The Germans killed the Jews
and the Jews killed the Arabs
and the Arabs killed the Hostages
And that is the News.
Is it any wonder
that the monkey's confused?
- Roger Waters, Amused to Death.
I think you miss the point.
A sad backstory doesn't justify bad actions.
Talk to any person on death row, he'll give you a sad story about how his parents beat him. Doesn't excuse the five dead hookers we found in his crawlspace.
Yeah, what the Germans did was bad. It was a complete overreaction to how badly SOME Jews screwed them after the first World War. (Ironically, most of those people got out before the Nazis did anything. 75% of German Jews survived the war. It was the Polish Jews who were screwed.)
Before WWII, Germany had around 525,000 Jews, well-integrated citizens; after the Holocaust, the vast majority were murdered or fled, leaving only a tiny fraction, with the population only slowly recovering decades later through immigration, largely from the former Soviet Union, to about 125,000 by the early 21st century,
- Near Annihilation: By 1943, only about 5,000 Jews remained in Germany, as most had fled or been deported
- Jews In Pre-War Germany, 1933-1939 | Guided History Jews In Pre-War Germany, 1933-1939 | Guided History