It's been many years since i read it, but it took my sympathetic blinders off. Normally, the victims of genocide don't glow up 1000%. Normally, they're more like ADOS in the sense of forever excluded, treated poorly, etc. But in this case, the same white people who had been pretty much ignoring their pleas then turn right around, voltron up into avenging angels, bomb Germany into dust, and essentially steal a whole country to give them. Where they do that at?
I also recall a lot of discussion of the finances of things.
My takeaway was that it's way more complicated than cartoon villain Hitler vs the world. I should re read.
There's a scene in The Pianist that , maybe unwittingly, spills the beans on what happened and why.
After the invasion of Poland by Germany, jews there are starting to catch hell. A family sits around airing grievances.
The father says "I blame the Americans....the American jews..........there's plenty of them over there . what have they done for us? huh? we are starving over here..barely have anything to eat...the Jewish bankers should convince America to declare war on Germany"
Eventually jewish bankers did just that, after Jewish studio owners/newspaper editors made American audiences aware of what was (allegedly) going on
American Jewish lobbies would go on to support causes that would benefit their people
-American Civil Rights Movement , which removed legal restriction and discrimination against American Blacks and EVERYBODY else
-repeal of 1924 Immigration Act that restricted immigration from places outside of Western and Northern Europe, the 1965 Immigration Laws made it easier for Americans to send for and sponsor relatives
-Reparations from European governments and banks (that held assets seized from jews)
The wealthiest American jews set up structures that benefited other jews. Created more wealthy jews ,etc,etc. They understand how the political system and lobbies work, and they funnel money directly into the hands of the politicians who do what they say.
In general jews do well academically, even people who don't like jews will concede that.
So in a place with educational & career opportunities like America, with legal discrimination dismantled (thanks directly to the CRM), and with white skin privilege......the glowup can happen.
