Did the Germans hate the Jews before Hitler's influence?

Answer 1

The great majority of German Jews were well integrated into German society and were widely respected, except by Jew baiters. They were '100% German' and made a huge contribution to the science, scholarship, the arts and literature in Germany. Obviously, those who had settled in Germany relatively recently (say, since about 1900) were less integrated.

Answer 2

Not really, I think....

Brriggers answer:

well of course some of them did but the Jews were spread though out Germany and they were very rich and helped the German economy, so many people did not hate them for this reason. however after Hitlers influence, many people turned against the Jews and created this hate for them

Another answerer points out that most Jews in Germany were Germans, they were not separate entities.

Moreover:

1. The German Jews did not feel under any particular threat before Hitler came to power (1933) and they were caught off guard, so to speak. Almost none of them had made any practical arrangements to leave Germany in the event of the Nazis coming to power.
2. Before 1933 Germany didn't figure at all on the list of countries that Zionists were worried about.
3. In many parts of Europe, Jews had tended to have a high regard for Germany as a tolerant country before 1933.
4. With the benefit of hindsight one can of course point to anti-Jewish Propaganda in the latter stages of World War I, to the sharp antisemitic edge to the 'stab-in-the-back' legend and the assassination of Rathenau in 1922. However, by 1924 such views seemed confined to a lunatic fringe.

Answer 3

Most of the immigrant Jews in the early 1930s were from Poland.

Answer 4

Everything other races could.