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.
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.
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
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?
What do you think the Jews were ?
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.
there have been many jewish communities in germany, not one. and only a few could plausibly stem from immigration in the antique.
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.
What makes you think they were immigrants?
Immigrants from where? Israel? /s
The Jews lived in Germany for generations.
Israel is not real
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
So they were … Germany-born …
Which means they had a nationality.
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?