Blood libels, pogroms, official persecution, slanders
scapegoats used by tyrants to deflect public anger
at their subsistence level living conditions for whom
blaming the presence of Jews was a useful alternative
to revolts; easier not to notice roving bands of enraged
citizens torching the hovels of cowering Jews than to
dispatch police units to disrupt and dispel protests.
The unsubtle art of denigration to steer a populace
in the direction of despising Jews whom they might
otherwise tolerate in their midst was a fine use of the
propaganda talents of political anti-Semites in a lurid
campaign to rid a continent of the nuisance presence of
a subhuman horde of intellectuals, artists, scientists
lawyers, doctors, literary giants and their offspring for
they were obviously a subversive element in an otherwise
progressive nation whose concern for the welfare of
its Aryan purity was a source of pride, diminished by
the unwanted presence of crude and clever pretenders.
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