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Church books were used to find Jews? Do you have a source for that?


It's not a religious thing: in Denmark, the church is the arm of the state tasked with civil registration. Until 1991 it was the same in Sweden.


> Church books were used to find Jews?

If you know who to rule out, you have a smaller pool of people to go after.


Antisemitism was not really about religion. Many Jews had actually converted to Christianity for generations. The Nazis still considered them to be Jews.


Ahh...well there is the famous saying, "I decide who is a Jew." It was used on the head of the German Manhattan Project and a Jewish head (like a headmaster some shit) of a concentration camp, forget which one. And that's why we say "German Manhattan Project" stedda "Americaner Atomwaffenunternehmen" (I made that word up, it is correct in German to make words up, that means atom weapon undertaking), because German antisemitism amounted to forfeiting the bomb.

That was the price, the defeat of their last hope against the Allies. All of the Great Jews that slapped those firecrackers together were exiled due to antisemitism: Fermi, Szílard, Einstein (to get the president to read the letter to get the Los Alamos show on the road in the first place, get Roosevelt to read top to bottom left to right, no easy task), von Neumann (spesh because of his schizophrenia, no concentration camp for him, he would have been experimented on to then do that same sin to everybody in the camps, Schizophrenic Jews were at the absolute bottom o the Nazi world order).

I just posted about this. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31990431

Fermi was originally a fascist, it basically made sense to him as a way of organizing a country.

Only non-Jew in the top desks of Los Alamos. Why? Only when the racial laws against his Jewish wife and children did he pack his shit and leave for America.

And Fermi was packing heat.


You forgot some other Jewish scientists who emigrated to America because of Nazism, some of whom earned the Nobel and many of whom worked on the Manhattan Project

Hans Bethe James Franck Edward Teller Rudolf Peierls Klaus Fuchs Otto Loewi Max Bergmann Dieter Gruen Lilli Hornig

I also forgot many in this list.


Agreed. It's a very long list.


They where like the tax office before the tax office.

Same in Sweden.




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