Do patriots everywhere know enough about how the persecution of the Jews in Germany and later in the occupied countries contributed to terrorizing the populations, splitting apart individuals and groups, arousing the meanest and most dishonest impulses, pulverizing trust and personal dignity, and finally forcing people to follow their masters into the abyss by making them partners in unspeakable crimes??

Extreme instances of persecution include the pogroms which preceded the First Crusade in 1096, the expulsion from England in 1290, the massacres of Spanish Jews in 1391, the persecutions of the Spanish Inquisition, the expulsion from Spain in 1492, Cossack massacres in Ukraine, various pogroms in Russia, the Dreyfus affair, the Final Solution by Hitler's Germany, official Soviet anti-Jewish policies and the Jewish exodus from Arab and Muslim countries.

Some believe that Luke ’ s gospel can be seen to mirror the Jewish apologetic literature of the time which served to “ defend Jews against misunderstanding and persecution .” Acts is said to be a:

It was, arguably, a serious blow to the Catholic Church and resulted in widespread persecution of minorities such as Jews, foreigners, beggars, and lepers.

Historically, these claims — alongside those of well poisoning and host desecration — have been a major theme in European persecution of Jews.

Although killing oneself is forbidden under normal Jewish law as being a denial of God's goodness in the world, under extreme circumstances when there has seemed no choice but to either be killed or forced to betray their religion, Jews have committed suicide or mass suicide ( see Masada, First French persecution of the Jews, and York Castle for examples ).

The Nazi propaganda depicted Weimar as " a morass of corruption, degeneracy, national humiliation, ruthless persecution of the honest ' national opposition ' —- fourteen years of rule by Jews, Marxists and ' cultural Bolsheviks ', who had at last been swept away by the National Socialist movement under Adolf Hitler and the victory of the ' national revolution ' of 1933.

Some Jews fled from persecution to western Europe and the Americas before borders closed.

After Kristallnacht in 1938 as persecution of Jews escalated, Hausdorff became more and more isolated.

The Emperor begged Rabbi Loew to destroy the Golem, promising to stop the persecution of the Jews.

Numbers were further augmented after 1550, following campaigns of persecution by the Venetian Inquisition against Italian anti-Trinitarians and Jews.

Jesus commissions the Twelve Disciples and sends them to preach to the Jews, perform miracles, and prophesy the imminent coming of the Kingdom, commanding them to travel lightly, without staff or sandals, and to be prepared for persecution.

The collapse of the Crusades was followed by increased persecution and expulsions of Jews in Europe.

With Arab labor immigration to Mandatory Palestine peaking through the 1930s, the increased persecution of European Jews led to a marked increase in Jewish immigration as well.

With the emergence of fascist regimes across Europe, Jews reverted to being non-citizens, deprived of all civil and economic rights and subject to arbitrary persecution.

Today, a memorial at the Opera Square is a reminder of the persecution of the Jews in Hanover.

It originated in a time of persecution of the Jewish people, when European Jews had turned inward to Talmud study ; many felt that most expressions of Jewish life had become too " academic ", and that they no longer had any emphasis on spirituality or joy.

Jews in Muslim countries were not entirely free from persecution — for example, many were killed, exiled or forcibly converted in the 12th century, in Persia and by the rulers of the Almohad dynasty in North Africa and Al-Andalus.

In November 1938, Goebbels got the chance to take decisive action against the Jews for which he had been waiting when a Jewish youth, Herschel Grynszpan, shot a German diplomat in Paris, Ernst vom Rath, in revenge for the deportation of his family to Poland and the persecution of German Jews generally.

It was redacted 220 CE by Rabbi Yehudah haNasi when, according to the Talmud, the persecution of the Jews and the passage of time raised the possibility that the details of the oral traditions dating from Pharisaic times ( 536 BCE – 70 CE ) would be forgotten.

While ethnic Poles were subject to selective persecution, all ethnic Jews were targeted by the Reich.

However, John A. T. Robinson and other scholars argued for a much earlier dating, based on the fact that the New Testament writings make no mention of ( 1 ) the Great Fire of Rome ( A. D. 64 ), one of the most destructive fires in Roman history, which Emperor Nero blamed on the Christians, and led to the first major persecution of believers ; ( 2 ) the final years and deaths of Paul, who wrote most of the epistles, Peter, whom Catholics recognize as the first pope, and the other apostles ; ( 3 ) Nero's suicide ( A. D. 68 ); or ( 4 ) the total destruction of the temple in Jerusalem ( A. D. 70 ), which Robinson thought should certainly have appeared, considering the importance of that event for Jews and Christians of that time.

In Germany, neither Jews nor the Roma were considered part of the people, and were specifically targeted for persecution.

The Roman persecution of Christians ended in AD 313 under the reign of Constantine the Great, who in 325 prompted the First Council of Nicaea, the beginning of the period of the First seven Ecumenical Councils.

Official persecution ended in 1787 ; a faculty of Protestant theology was established at Montauban in 1808, and the Lausanne seminary was finally closed on 18 April 1812.

However, immediately afterward Roman-Persian conflict led to the persecution of the church by the Sassanid King Khosrau I ; this ended in 545.

The affair ended decidedly in favor of Eck, who induced the authorities to enter on a course of active persecution of Zwingli and his followers ( Conference of Baden ).

Thrasamund also ended many years of persecution of the Catholics, which had begun under his uncle Huneric, a move which improved the Vandals ' relations with the Byzantine Empire.

The Edict of Versailles did not legally proclaim freedom of religion in France – this took two more years, with the Declaration of the Rights of Man and Citizen of 1789 – however, it was an important step in eliminating religious tensions and it officially ended religious persecution within his realm.

Zeno sent Genseric a high-ranking officer as ambassador, Severus, who succeeded in stipulating an " eternal " peace between the Vandals and the Eastern Roman Empire, a peace which allowed the Romans to pay ransoms for the prisoners in Vandal hands and which ended the Vandal persecution of Orthodox Christians in the Vandal territory.

Though the persecution of Christians officially ended in 313, when Constantine I and his co-emperor, Licinius, issued the Edict of Milan which mandated toleration of Christians in the Roman Empire and freedom of worship, Theodotus martyrdom and persecution only ended in 324 and it is this event that the Church annually commemorates on March 2.

This persecution ended in 313 C. E.

When Operation Desert Storm ended in 1991, the safety of Kurds who were fleeing during the 1991 uprising from Iraqi persecution became an issue, and Operation Provide Comfort began.

After plural marriage ended at the turn of the 20th century, the First Vision was promoted heavily by Joseph F. Smith, and it soon replaced polygamy in the minds of adherents as the main defining element of Mormonism and the source of the faith's perception of persecution by outsiders.

However, the 1787 Edit of Tolerance was a pivotal step in eliminating religious strife and it officially ended religious persecution in France.

* 1562 – The Edict of Saint-Germain was an edict of limited toleration issued by Catherine de ' Medici ( the regent for the young Charles IX of France ) that ended insistent persecution of non-Catholics ( mostly Huguenots ).

* 29 November 1787 – The Edict of Versailles, issued by Louis XVI of France, ended persecution of non-Catholics-including Huguenots.

Full religious freedom had to wait two more years until the Declaration of the Rights of Man and Citizen of 1789, but the 1787 Edict of Tolerance was a pivotal step in subduing religious strife and it officially ended religious persecution in France.

Choe Ik-hyeon, who had helped with the impeachment of Heungseon Daewongun, sided with the isolationists, saying that the Japanese were just like the “ Western barbarians ” who would spread subversive notions like Catholicism ( which had been a major issue during Heungseon Daewongun's reign that ended in massive persecution ).

With the Edict of Milan in 313, Constantine I ended the persecution of Christians.

Almost single-handed, Ariel Sharon may have ended the Jews ' virtual immunity from hostile criticism that Hitler's persecution assured for more than 50 years.

In a fortunate turn of events for the Georges Queen Elizabeth was crowned during their imprisonment and ended the persecution of Protestants.

Although outside observers thought that the Cultural Revolution had ended Christianity in China, Christianity in all its variety had taken root and possessed the strength to survive decades of hostility and persecution.