Brigham Young University BYU ScholarsArchive Faculty Publications 2005 The Medieval Holocaust: The Approach of the Plague and the Destruction of Jews in Germany, 1348-1349 Albert Winkler Brigham Young University - Provo,
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[email protected]. The Medieval Holocaust:The Approach of the Plague and the Destruction of Jews in Germany, 1348-1349 by Albert Winkler The Jews of Germany have suffered a great deal from Jews in Germany during the Middle Ages persecutions over the centuries. The Holocaust of the 1940s, According to the available information, Jews have lived for example, ranks among the most brutal events in recorded in what is now Germany starting in Roman times. There was history, but there were many other instances of oppression in a community of Jews in Cologne during the Roman era German history, many of which date from the Middle Ages. indicated by the remains of their synagogue, which has During the Medieval period, the Jews were subject to recently been unearthed. However, the existence of Jews in numerous attacks, and they often faced periods of Germany might not have been continuous because scholars devastation and mass murder.