| This system is not necessarily unjust in the letter of the law(though it often was there too).
Because Medieval Law thought of people as members of interest groups and gave each interest group it's rights and responsibilities. Some were treated better some worse. Jews were in a peculiar situation; they often had quite a bit of influence(though not so much as conspiracy theorists say-and there were quite a few poor Jews) from the power of the purse and the pen, but their security hung by a thread on the whim of the powerful or the mobs present state of drunkenness.
This has little to do with World War II, except that every historical event is formed by the previous. But I felt the need to clarify. |