• TankovayaDiviziya@lemmy.world
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    3 days ago

    Did Hitler also target immigrants? I know the Nazis despised non-white and non-Aryans, but I think they primarily targeted Jews in their propagandas.

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      They did target Sinti and Roma as well.

      But they mainly targeted people they didn’t consider to be part of a nationality. That included Jews and the aforementioned Sinti and Roma people.

      • Kornblumenratte@feddit.org
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        Actually, the Jewish community has been living longer in Germany than most German tribes.

        The Jews arrived during the early Roman empire, while the Frankish and Slavic-to-be-Germanized settlers of Western, Middle and Eastern Germany arrived 5–6 centuries later.

        In the North West and in the Center, (Lower) Saxons, Thuringians and maybe Hesse were there probably before the Jews.

        In the South, the Celtic ancestors of the Allemanic and Bavarian people settled the area for several millenia, but the Jews still arrived before their Germanic ancestors immigrated and before the population was Germanized.

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          there have been many jewish communities in germany, not one. and only a few could plausibly stem from immigration in the antique.

          Slavic-to-be-Germanized settlers

          this is a paradox. german settlers came in and we were then germanized.

          generally your whole argument shows how unfitting the whole idea to construct the idea of germany based on the populations in the late antique (stichwort Völkerwanderung) is. jews have been living in germany as long as everybody else. since 1871.

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        3 days ago

        What makes you think they were immigrants?

        Immigrants from where? Israel? /s

        The Jews lived in Germany for generations.

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            I’m fairly certain that there is a piece of land between the mediterranean sea and the Jordan river. I also think that Jerusalem is a city that has existed before i was born. /s

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            3 days ago

            Ignoring the fact that that’s a very silly sentence under most interpretations, what does that have to do with whether there was a large German Jewish community in the 1940s?

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        What? That’s not true. They were part of the country. Some even got decorated defending that country in WWI. They were no immigrants. Not that it should make a difference, but for me that makes it even worse.