oh no, it isn't. France has always been anti-semitistic, even more than Germany. The problem is: France never had one of those anti-semitics as their leader, but we had.
And the Nazis really had brainwashing power. The Reichstagsbrand is a good example. The SA burned down the Reichstag, and said that jews did it. And I mean: you can't just go to the Reichstag and burn it without someone seeing so people must have seen it, but still believed it was the jews, just because they wanted to and the Nazis told them what tehy wanted to hear. Life in the times after teh first world war was very hard for the Germans. They got blamed for starting the first World war (which was a drastical change in military ways, before WW 1 wars were more or less something to "show of" what one can do), but they actually didn't (we started the second, tho). It was something that had to happen one day or another, so people in that time weren't to happy for beeing blamed without a reason, but they were happy that they got a scapegoat for their own missery. And who's better to blame than some random group of minorities that is quite wealthy and very educated?
*rant off*
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Well, I'm not proud that Razinger has become the new pope, as he has proven himself very conservatie, even outdatet in his point of views. He was a Cardinal (is that the english word, too?) that believed in exorcism. Let's just hope he won't act the same way now that he is pope.