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They simply found an alternative richer class to steal from, so found it convenient to become national socialists instead of communists. It's Willie Sutton's (a
by hirundo 13y ago
They simply found an alternative richer class to steal from, so found it convenient to become national socialists instead of communists. It's Willie Sutton's (apocryphal?) logic that he robbed banks because that's were the money is. Though the Jews didn't have all the money, they were the ones most politically convenient to take it from. A bank with fewer guards, so to speak. The rhetoric is far more fluid than the motivation.
- walshemj 13y agoAnd they had decades of background Antisemitism in both Germany and Austria Karl Lueger in Vienna is one earlier example.