Would you be antisemite if you were German in the 1930s?

Answer 1

Most of the regular populatoin of Germany was not antisemitic during the pre and post war times. In fact many people in Germany protected them, even at the risk of losing thier property or being killed.

Answer 2

I'd like to say, no!
But that's always easily said from today's point of view. I would probably have had another education, another background and maybe different values then.
So I can't be sure what my views at that time would have been, I hope even then I wouldn't have been an antisemite.

Answer 3

Probably, if that's the way I was raised, and it was preached at me all the time. How the anti-Semitism of the Germans was handled by the US and the Germans themselves after World War II should be a case study for solutions to the Arab-Israeli attitudes.

Answer 4

I heard that a lot of germans were scared of fascism during the war, but went along with it to save their own lives.

Answer 5

i don't think you can judge someone due to where they lived at a certain time
you cant be responsible for your government or the ideas of some mad man because you come from the same please
that's just ridiculous

Answer 6

Not I. But *all* the *Neocons* would be on the front lines cheering Adolf Hitler, that's for sure.

Answer 7

I'd like to think no.

But so much of our beliefs are shaped by those around us that it's tough to be sure...

Answer 8

Nope. After all, I'm not anti-Arabic, I'm not anti-Jew, and I'm not anti-black, and I live in the USA in 2006.

Answer 9

If I had the same state of mind that I do now, then NO.

Answer 10

I'd like to think not, I'm not now