i´d like to know if Jews lived in Germany or were concentrated there more than they were in other parts of?

Question

europe.or is it we think a lot of them were there just because all of the horrible things that happened to them there.was germany a place where Jews gathered?

Answer 1

Too exhausted to dig up my sources and the Internet can be confusing so gonna spew this one out of the ole cranium. Actual Practicing non assimilated Jews in Germany around 1930 numbered around ten percent, if that. They were 'concentrated' in big cities such as Hamburg and Berlin and Cologne etc in 'neighborhoods' no longer called ghettos. There were perhaps another ten to fifteen percent 'closet' Jews. People who either did not consider themselves Jewish but had Jewish ancestry within seven Henerations; the standard set by the Spanish Inquisition, accepted by the Nazis and later accepted by Evangelical Christians.

There were no more Jews in Germany than there were Jews in France or Holland or England. A small portion. There were more Jews in Poland and in Russia as well as other Eastern and Central European Nations invaded by Hermany and these Jews helped to nudge the killings to the six million mark. A majority of Germany's Jews were pushed out by 1939 and throughout the war the number of true Jews was around 3 % of the population, down to around 2 % by the end of the War in Europe.

Germany's Jews were usually housed in Grman Concentration Camps, while the bulk of the Eastern Jews, Poland, etc, were concentrated in Eastern Poland. Large numbers of Jews were forced from their homes in Hungary and Romania and Bulgaria.

So no, there were not a lot of Jews in Germany but enough of them for Hitler to scare the people of Germany into believing they were a menace.

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Answer 2

Jews have lived in all European Countries for centuries, not more in Germany than anywhere else. In fact the word "ghetto" comes from the Venetian (not Italian) word "geto", meaning "flow" (of liquid metal). There are still a lot of Jews in Venice and they were a very important part of the financial establishment in the "Serenissima" Republic of Venice, since it was a sin for Christians to lend money for profit.
The Jews were the only ones who could lend money and as such they were cherished by every king, ruler or merchant who needed money for whatever enterprise they had in mind. In the 15th century, with the beginning of the Renaissance period, philosophy changed every aspect of human living and banks were born (in Florence). They soon spread all over Europe. At this point the importance of Jewish financiers decreased and the Republic of Venice decided to keep them more under control by concentrating them in a single area. They had recently built a new foundry for their ship building (Arsenal), so the old foundry had become vacant and it was chosen as the appropriate area where to force Jews to live. (Incidentally it is still the area where there is a very high concentration of Jews in Venice today and it is still called "Ghetto degli Ebrei)..
Jews were periodically persecuted in every European Country through the centuries and always for the same reason. When some king or ruler was unable to repay them their loans , he invented some story about Jews doing something terrible against Christians and heated up popular immagination, which turned against theJews (the most infamous acts against them are the Pogroms of Poland). Hitler did nothing new. After WW1 Germany had a terrible economical crisis and Hitler blamed the Jews for it, implying that the financial slump was due to the hoarding of money perpetrated by the Jews.

Answer 3

There were about 600 000 Jews in Germany in 1933, i.e. less than 1 % of the total German population. Altogether there were about 9.5 million European Jews before the Holocaust and as you probably know, 6 millions of them were killed. Half of them were from Poland, where 10 % of the population was Jewish before the Holocaust.

Keep in mind that at the time the Holocaust happened, Germans had occupied a large part of Europe and killed as many Jews as they could in all occupied territories. Most of the Holocaust victims were not from Germany. You cannot understand the Holocaust without knowing about World War II.

I also want to correct one more thing in one of the previous answers where it was said that most of the German Jews had been "housed" in concentration camps in Germany, that's not true - most of those German Jews who were still in Germany in 1941 when the mass deportations started were deported to Poland to the death camps and ghettos.

Answer 4

Jews were regular residents of Germany, like you being a resident of wherever you live.
Hitlers cleansing program began with mentally handicapped people, elderly, homosexuals and finally the Jews- you know, exactly what the Christians of the 700 club and followers of Billy graham would do if they could get away with it.
Graham got INTO the white house and influenced policy- we might have been close to killing Jews and homosexuals due to hateful Christians!
It all starts in Germany. The concentration camps were in other countries as well.

Answer 5

SFAIK Germany did not have a higher percentage of Jews than other European countries.
In Europe it was Poland which had a higher than average percentage of Jewish population - which is one of the reasons why most of the nazi extermination camps were located in occupied Poland

Answer 6

There are Jews merely like there are Christians and Muslims! haha. germany has made many strides to hold back the jewish impression and community feeling to germany. they have rebuilt many synogogues and Germany is quite secure united states merely like u . s . a . and different euopean worldwide places so specific communities of lots of room to enhance in an extremely accepting and equivalent united states.