What Lies Beneath: Anti-Semitism Is Once Again Flourishing in Europe

By Chris Katulka - https://harbingersdaily.com/what-lies-beneath-anti-semitism-is-once-again-flourishing-in-europe/

They say the tip of an iceberg represents only 10 percent of its volume; the other 90 percent sits quietly below the surface. It has been 136 years since Adolf Hitler’s birth in Braunau am Inn, the largest town in northern Austria near the German border. He is forever remembered as the devilish dictator obsessed with the extermination of the Jewish people during World War II, and his name is stained with the blood of 6 million Jewish souls who were systematically murdered because of their ethnicity.

Yet Hitler did not invent anti-Semitism in Europe. He was merely the tip of the iceberg. The vast bulk of the insidious structure lies beneath the surface, which is why today’s Europe is beginning to resemble 1939 all over again.

Hitler tapped into the prevailing attitude in Germany at the time. In 1879, German politician and publicist Wilhelm Marr created the League of Anti-Semites to oppose the emancipation of Jewish people in Germany. Marr invented the word anti-Semitism. His publication The Victory of Judaism over Germandom called for Germans to resist the Jewish people, claiming they wielded too much power in the world. Marr’s publication was so popular in Germany it was reprinted many times before Hitler ever stepped into German politics.