writings of Karl Lueger, the immensely popular Christian Socialist Mayor of Vienna, and in those of the Pan-German demagogue Georg von Schonerer. One particularly rabid follower of Lueger, Ernst Schneider, even foreshadowed the Nazi extermination camps by publicly recommending that all Jews be placed aboard a large ship which would then be scuttled on the high seas. Vienna’s anti-Semitism — along with the conflicting nationalist passions that erupted in incessant student brawls at the university — was no doubt intensified by the social misery of which Hitler got such a bitter taste during his
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Helped inspire the Holocaust
