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The Track of the Jew through the Ages

discover not the occasions but the reasons for disturbing events that
occur, that is quite especially the case in the case of the study of the
Jewish question in all countries. To be sure, political and cultural
questions, and especially church relations, have been important, they
came to the foreground from time to time, as in the time of the
Inquisition, but they form only the more visible factors; hand in
hand went always questions of an economic and character-related
nature. As the Jewish question is indeed in many respects of greater
importance today, it still remains anchored in the social position of
the Jews.
Without the immeasurable wealth that stands at their
disposal, it would not be possible to direct the politics of the world
and to let the statesmen of many countries enter as puppets of the
Jewish will; it would not be possible to instil the poison of
degeneracy, of conflict with their own character, into the hearts of
the Europeans and to maintain the minds in a mood favourable for
the Jews if the almighty gold, systematically administered, did not
hire accomplices in all countries. But just as it is now, when the
crushing bank capital holds entire nations through interest, the
situation was the same, though to a smaller extent, also in Spain,
France, Germany and many other states. Everywhere the Jew was
the interest-lord of the princes, of the clergy, of the people; and the
Jewish persecutions, if we may anticipate, are mainly an attempt
undertaken anew over and over again to break the yoke of usury,
the more so in that it stemmed from a racially alien, religiously and
morally hostile intruder. The people themselves knew this and, when
their voice was not heard, the priests finally used their agitation for
their ends and imprinted on the hatred a purely ecclesiastical stamp.
The Jewish and Jew-friendly journalists of our age speak
in eloquent tones of the cruel persecutions of the poor innocent
Jews. They can dish out this fairy-tale so much more extensively
since they know very well that nowadays at most one man in a
thousand knows the details of the actual relations. The persecutions
were cruel, if one assumes a humanitarian point of view, but
nonetheless necessary. For the history of the Jews, where it stood in
a state of mutual interaction with that of the peoples of the West,

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