The fundamental grievances against the Jews (actually “jews,” very rich people)back then are very much alive in the modern day, impacting regular people in exactly the same way.
The “big box store” phenomena has changed the American landscape in the last generation. Walmart, Home Depot, JC Pennys, and a thousand other franchises have transformed main street, wall street, and every aspect of our way of life.
One Walmart can obliterate dozens of small stores and overnight wipe out a small town’s mercantile center. A dozen small businesses with challenging jobs, friendly service and name-brand loyalty are crushed by huge corporations that can undersell the competition until they’re driven out of business.
What’s left is a vapid shell of a small town. Minimum wage jobs, run down apartments and beer-hall morality replaces decent homes, family values and wages you can live on. Business profits don’t go to benefit the community but to investors a thousand miles or three continents away.
Ditto for larger cities. Shopping centers gut traditional shopping districts. Good full time jobs become minimum-wage part time jobs; benefits are history; work satisfaction nil.
This is what the modern day “jews” (for lack of a better word) have done to America. Many communities have banned Walmarts or Home Depots in their communities. Nobody in any small town in America is happy about it. Maybe soon people in big cities will feel the same way.
This is exactly the phenomena that happened in the late 1800s in Germany…
German shops at the time, as they had been for hundreds of years, were governed by a loose agreement of rules. Shopkeepers didn’t advertise or even display their wares beyond the basic necessities. They sold everything for a reasonable profit, with an unwritten guarantee of quality that was enforced efficiently by virtue of reputation.
Enter the Jewish merchants. They built modern, shiny shops, and imported cheap subpar merchandise. Then they undercut the competition and ran out of business – THEN jack up the prices! Jewish merchants destroyed every shop and every trade across the entire continent. They did it with ruthless efficiency and with total disdain for the culture that had fashioned implements for generations.
The Jews became immensely, fabulously wealthy. They flaunted this wealth. They rubbed people’s noses in the dirt. They were the multi-billionaires of the day. They left in their wake tens of millions of people in abject poverty, penniless and hopeless.
These hyper wealthy Jews built fabulous mansions. Even the least successful of them lived in splendor not seen since the arrogant extravagance of the latter Roman emperors. They were just as haughty, just as isolated in their palatial domains, and just as despised by the people.
THEN the Great Depression rendered everybody penniless with super hyper-inflation. A loaf of bread went from one mark to a trillion from 1919 to 1923 in Germany. The Jews escaped relatively unscathed because they hedged their wealth overseas and in precious items like artwork and diamonds.
THAT is why anti-semitism was so rampant in Europe back then. THAT is why Jews were hated in every nation of the world; why no nation on earth would take in refugees from the anti-semitic pograms of the Nazi regime before the war.
If people these days had a fraction of the backbone the Nazis did back then, they would rise up and take their small town main streets back, transform dirty little trashed out downtowns into vital social, commercial cultural centers instead of the ugly commercial behemoths they are right now……
Be that as it may, sending the Jews to work camps was just retaliation for what the Jews had done to the Germans a generation earlier. During the Great Depression millions of Germans died of starvation and disease; virtually all the rest lived out their lives in abject poverty, hopeless shells of nothing.