Antisemitism in Germany
American political scientist Daniel Goldhagen argues in his book Hitler's Willing Executioners, that the vast majority of ordinary Germans were "willing executioners" in the Holocaust because of a unique and virulent "eliminationist antisemitism" in German political culture which had developed in the preceding centuries. This thesis has been rejected by many historians.
- 1012: Jews expelled from Mainz.
- Rhineland massacres
- 1276: Jews expelled from Upper Bavaria.
- Judensau
- 1442: Jews again expelled from Upper Bavaria
- 1478: Jews expelled from Passau
- 1499: Jews expelled from Nuremberg.
- 1510: Jews expelled from Brandenburg after a false accusation of host desecration in Berlin.
- 1519: Jews expelled from Regensburg
- 1551: All remaining Jews expelled from the duchy of Bavaria. Jewish settlement in Bavaria ceased until toward the end of the 17th century, when a small community was founded in Sulzbach by refugees from Vienna.
- 1614: Fettmilch Uprising: Jews are expelled from Frankfurt, Holy Roman Empire, following the plundering of the Judengasse