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70.59.147.44 wrote: A few things not brought up in previous posts

1. All of the combatants on both sides were anti Semitic to varying degrees, some just kept it in the background more. The Russians were the biggest offender having state sponsored persecution of Jews although not on the scale of the Nazis basically the same idea, get rid of the Jews. The French were also covertly anti Semitic and throughout history the French have a history of being backstabbers. It is ironical that in the Ottoman Empire at the time Muslims, Christians and Jews lived in relative harmony as long as they paid their taxes and obeyed the laws of the Empire.

2. As far as communist revolution the master Karl Marx said there was no hope of a revolution in Russia, he predicted it happening in the US, Great Britain or Germany.

Just some more thoughts to muddy the waters. I'm not sure what point you're trying to make with #2, but #1 certainly glosses over MANY things. In particular, the Franco-German attitudes to their Jewish population. Yes, Anti-Semitism was around and many subscribed to it but this is not the era of Fascism. In French North Africa for instance, it was actually more advantageous to be a Jew due to the way the laws were established. In Germany, it was more interesting. The German Chancellor until 1917, Theobold von Bethmann-Halloweg, was of Jewish descent and a large number of German Jews fought for Germany in World War I. I have even ran across the claim that the first Iron Cross awarded in the Great War was to a Jew, although I have yet been able to confirm it.