Thread by @RabbiHarvey

Shavua Tov, how about a quick thread about the Nazis and how they NOT ONLY were not atheist, NOT ONLY were they Christian but actually COPIED medieval Christian antisemitic legislation when creating Nazi law? Let's dive in: #Thread #threadstorytime #threadsofthreads

Holocaust historian Raul Hilberg noted in his work "The Destruction of the European Jews" a very helpful side by side comparison of Church Law and Nazi Law, which will, hopefully put to bed the silly idea that the Nazis were atheists who rejected Christianity. /1

Church Law:
Jews were not allowed to hold public office, per the Synod of Clermont, 535 CE

Nazi Law:
Law for the Re-establishment of office, the Professional Civil Service, April 7th, 1933.
/2

Church Law:
Jews were not allowed to show themselves in the street during Passion Week, per the 3rd Synod of Orleans, 538 CE

Nazi Law: Decree authorizing local authorities to bar Jews from the street on certain Nazi holidays, Dec 3, 1938
/3

Church Law:
Burning of the Talmud and other Jewish books, 12th synod of Toledo 681 CE

Nazi Law:
Book burnings of Jewish authors in Nazi Germany
/4

Church Law:
Christians not permitted to patronize Jewish doctors, Trulanic Synod, 692 CE

Nazi Law:
Decree of July 25th, 1938
/5

Church Law:
Jews obligated to pay taxes for the support of the church to the same extent as Christians, Synod of Gerona, 1078 CE

Nazi Law:
Jews pay a special tax in lieu of donations for party purposes imposed on Nazis, Dec 24, 1940
/6

Church Law:
The marking of Jewish clothes with a badge, Fourth Lateran Council, Canon 68

Nazi Law:
Decree of Sept 1, 1941, authorizing that Jews are required to wear yellow stars.
/7

Church Law:
Christian not permitted to attend Jewish ceremonies, Synod of Vienna 1267

Nazi Law:
Friendly relations with Jews prohibited, Oct 24, 1941
/8

Church Law:
Compulsory Ghettos, Synod of Breslau, 1267

Nazi Law:
Order by Reinhard Heydrich for ghettoization of Jews, Sept 21, 1939
/9

Church Law:
Christian not permitted to sell or rent real estate to Jews, Synod of Ofen, 1279

Nazi Law:
Decree providing compulsory sale of Jewish real estate, Dec 3, 1938
/10

Church Law:
Jews not permitted to obtain academic degrees, Council of Basel, Sessio XIV

Nazi Law:
Law against Overcrowding of German Schools and Universities, April 25th, 1933.
/11

No, friends, these are not coincidences. The Nazis used the antisemitic framework from the Church in order to create a Jew free society, just as the Church hoped to accomplish.
Germans had a wealth of data to pull from, 1500 years of oppression to emulate. So there we go.
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