why did the jews go to germany?was the french attacking or british?

Question

why did the jewish people wind up in germany?why was there a jewish plight or (refuge) to germany??did the war with france or britian cause this??

Answer 1

The Jews were in Germany prior to WWII because of the Jewish Diaspora, which means scattered. The Diaspora began thousands of years ago with the destruction of the temple. Over many generations, the Jews were forced to leave their home land and assimilated into other cultures. It is important to know that the Jews lived in Germany before Germany existed. They had adapted and accepted German culture, while maintaining their own culuture and religion. It was the differences that brought hatred and fear from Nazis Germany.

There's been a "Jewish Plight", as you say, since the creation of Israel. After WWII, the West believed that the Jews needed to return to their homeland. The modern creation of Israel has brought much resentment and a new anti-semetic movement. The answer to "Jewish plight" is an answer I'd love to hear.

Songbyrd has some good stuff.

Answer 2

No, the Jews were in Germany because they were accepted into the German society. They created the form of worship that has become known as the Reform sector. That allowed them to dress the same as the Germans around them and after a time they began to be Germans who practiced Judaism.
In fact when they came to America in the mid to late 1800's they were embarrassed by the Jews that came out of the Russian areas. To the Reform Jew the Orthodox Jews dressed funny, and so the Reform Jews help create the Conservative Temples to get the Orthodox into a more main stream world interacting with Christians.
The war with the Allies did not cause the problems. Hitler and his gang were the problem. Hitler began blaming the Jews for the hyper inflation that took place. He blamed the Jews for everything. They were blamed for the loss of the Great War (WWI) and the fact was the German Jews fought right along with the Christian Germans. By the time Hitler was in power, and it was to late.
Now, not all the Jews killed lived in Germany, millions still lived in Poland and the Soviet Union in the state of White Russia and the Ukraine.

Answer 3

Neither; rather, centuries prior to the Nazi regime, all sides were equally (un-)friendly to Jewish commerce. The heirs of Yashar-El migrated across the Roman Empire after the collapse of Masada in the early 2nd Century A.D., and they faced scattered persecution from individual realms in Europe (e.g. from the Spanish kingdom and the Vatican after Constantinople fell; from England in the mid-17th Century A.D.) rather than a united hostile front as was the case under the Seljuq and Mamluq sultans.

Answer 4

There were Jews throughout Europe. They didn't just live in Germany. There was (and still is) a large dispersal of Jews throughout Eastern Europe and Middle Europe.

They did not have a real central location to live in, they just lived wherever.