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Killing a bunch of people whose people killed your people, whose people killed your people, etc. That's a big part of history.

The Jews weren't killing any Germans. That's just a lie. In fact, many Jews were Germans, and many Germans were Jews.

A slightly better analogy would how the Germans treated the French during WWII, in revenge for how the French treated Germans after WWI, in revenge for how the Germans treated the French after the Franco-Purssian War, in revenge for how the French treated the Germans during the Napoleanic Wars, in revenge for ...



They aren't actually killing the people responsible though, it's always a bunch of random innocent bystanders. People are just shit sometimes.


Sadly, that was the normal consequence for having lost a conflict for most of history.

During the holocaust, Nazis killed many German veterans of WWI.

Even by ancient standards, that’s inexplicable.




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