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To: Ilaine who wrote (46961)	9/26/2002 1:31:35 PM
From: Neocon	Respond to of 281500

Yes, that is how it seems to me. For example, the Nazis tended to recruit members from the petit bourgeoisie, those small proprietors that were being driven out of business by the new department stores. As it happened, Jews were unusually involved in the development of department stores. Similarly, the prominence of several Jewish families in international banking led to Jews being blamed for things like the hyper- inflation experienced by Wiemar. In Poland, Jews had been welcomed into the country in the Middle Ages by the nobility, and often served as middlemen, including overseers of estates, tax collectors, and so forth, between the nobility and the peasantry. This helped to exacerbate Polish anti- semitism. Also, with the rise of romantic nationalism in Germany and Eastern Europe, the fact that the Jews were not part of the Volk made their position in the state problematic. These are only some of the ways that matters went beyond the religious origins of anti- semitism......