Who made the Jews wander?
The “wandering Jew” became a hunted being. The Christian Church conveniently forgot that she herself had forced the Jews into money-lending in the Middle Ages and labeled it a godless business, not to be entered into by respectable Christian people. The Church forgot that she herself had prevented Jews from belonging to trade guilds and taking up ordinary occupations and jobs. And what about the Jews’ so-called thirst for power? If you follow the struggles for power between Christian kings and popes, landowners and nobility, tradesmen and farmers, citizens and cloisters, through the ages in all European countries, you get a good impression of what the words “power hungry” mean. But time after time the Jews were robbed, hunted, raped, separated out, and herded into ghettos, before finally being carried off to the concentration camps. A systematic attempt was made to murder every Jew. Great and small, from the oldest to the youngest, they were to be gassed and the corpses burned in the c