There was an ongoing conspiracy theory that the Germans only lost WW1 (and thus suffered humiliation and poverty) because German Jewish bankers betrayed the nation by refusing to fund the war effort further for things like oil imports.

There's a grain of truth - bankers did refuse further loans, and many bankers were Jewish, but the war was a lost cause for Germany regardless, and the banks wanted to avoid collapse and thus the ruination of the economy. All continued funding might have done would extend it a few months. It wasn't religious. It was pragmatic, and it was all the banks.

On top of that, Europe already disliked Jews for being money lenders and for 'killing Christ', and this just reignighted it in Germany. German Jews were accused of purposefully sabotaging the war because their loyalty wasn't to Germany, but New World Order projects.

That wasn't true, but they certainly weren't full-throated patriots, but considering centuries of persecution, can you blame them for not being fully integrated into national culture? The Jewish diaspora was usually something they were more loyal to.

Hitler was a captain in WW1 and was gassed, and certainly saw friends die. He was a hyper-nationalist who couldn't admit Germany lost fairly, so needed a non-German scapegoat to blame for defeat and his friends pointless deaths.

The thing is, Jews only went into banking because historically because Christians were religiously banned from money lending, yet it was still a service in demand - there was just no supply. As they were discriminated against in every other industry they entered the one where they could thrive.

Kings that found themselves indebted to money lenders over pointless wars also found whipping up Jew hate convenient. Start a pogrom and say bye to your debts. No Jews, nobody to pay back.

There was an ongoing conspiracy theory that the Germans only lost WW1 (and thus suffered humiliation and poverty) because German Jewish bankers betrayed the nation by refusing to fund the war effort further for things like oil imports.

There's a grain of truth - bankers did refuse further loans, and many bankers were Jewish, but the war was a lost cause for Germany regardless, and the banks wanted to avoid collapse and thus the ruination of the economy. All continued funding might have done would extend it a few months. It wasn't religious. It was pragmatic, and it was all the banks.

On top of that, Europe already disliked Jews for being money lenders and fir 'killing Christ', and this just reignighted it in Germany. German Jews were accused of purposefully sabotaging the war because their loyalty wasn't to Germany, but New World Order projects.

Hitler was a captain in WW1 and was gassed, and certainly saw friends die. He was a hyper-nationalist who couldn't admit Germany lost fairly, so needed a non-German scapegoat to blame fir defeat and his friends pointless deaths.

The thing is, Jews only went into banking because historically because Christians were religiously banned from money lending, yet it was still a service in demand - there was just no supply. As they were discriminated against in every other industry they entered the one where they could thrive.

Kings that found themselves indebted to money lenders over pointless wars also found whipping up Jew hate convenient. Start a pogrom and say bye to your debts. No Jews, nobody to pay back.