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Der jüdische Ritualmord: Eine historische Untersuchung
von Hellmut Schramm, Ph. D.

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The Jewish ritual-murder is as old as Jewry itself; to a
further definition the objection could be made, insofar as the Gentile
view is concerned, of subjectivity, injustice, or even partisan malice.
For this reason we present for clarification of the concept a
Jewish passage, still generally valid today, from the Zohar,
a "holy book" of Judaism, which is placed even before the Talmud by
Jewish Orthodoxy. While the Talmud says in one passage (Baba
mezia 114b) -- to use this as an introduction -- that only Jews are
designated as human beings while the remaining peoples of the world (thus,
all non-Jews, not only the Christian peoples) are called cattle, the
Cabbalistic Zohar (Shining Light) contains an
unmistakable directive for ritual-murder. This reads, verbatim
according to the authentic translation of Dr. Bischoff: "Further, there is
a command of slaughtering, which takes place in a ritually valid manner
for strangers, who are not human beings but are like unto cattle. For
those who do not concern themselves with the Jewish religious law, must be
made offerings (!) of prayer, so that they are offered as sacrifice to the
blessed God. And when they thus are offered to Him, it is said of them:
"for thy sake are we murdered the whole day, slaughtered, like sheep at
the slaughtering bench" (compare to this Psalm 44:23)!

The exact
point in time when these ritual-murders are to be carried out according to
opportunity, is to be found in the Talmud passage Kethuboth
62a, where the slaughtering (schachat) of a boy on Passover evening
is discussed. Actually, during the course of our investigation we will be
able to determine that the individual acts of murder falling in the time
of the Pessach are by no means of an accidental nature, but on the
contrary they were and are executed by plan in observation of Jewish
secret law.

The Passover (Pessach) celebration is held in
the month of March or, respectively, April for eight days' duration in
remembrance of the removal of the "Children of Israel" (6) from Egypt. We can visualize what is said about
the mass-slaughter of the first-born Gentile children in Egypt in
Exodus 12:30: "...and there went up a great wailing in Egypt, for
there was no house in which there was not one dead", so we can understand
that the institution of the Passover according to the instruction of the
Jewish blood-god Yahweh: ". . .you shall have this day for remembrance and
shall keep it as a feast to the Lord (Yahweh)" (Exodus 12:14), can
receive its consecration in the Jewish sense only through acts of murder
of non-Jews. A similar feast of murder are "the days of Purim",
named after the Pur, or the lot, which was cast, "to terrify and to
kill," a lot which delivered up to the Jewish slaughterers over 75,000 of
the best men in the ancient Persian kingdom of King Xerxes, who had
surrendered himself to alcohol through the machinations of
Mordechai, a Jewish beggar who had ascended to the position of
Court Jew, and his niece and royal concubine Esther; among the
slaughtered was Haman and his ten sons; Haman was aware of the
enemy and had clearly recognized the looming Jewish danger: ". . .there is
a people, scattered and dispersed among all the peoples in all lands of
your kingdom, and their law is different from that of other peoples, and
they act not according to the laws of the king" (Esther
3:8).

The Purim feast "they hold for two days each year, as
they were ordained and appointed" (Esther 9:27); this "feast,"
according to its entire historical or perhaps only legendary core, is
likewise an explicit feast of revenge "at which Jewry strikes dead its
enemies, at least in thought" (according to the assessment of the Jewish
"Professor" Gunkel), just as the Book of Esther is a document of
the first water of the most unrestrained and limitless Jewish revenge
against all non-Jews, about which Luther (Table-Talk 2996,
Erlanger Edition Volume 62, page 181) made the judgment: "Oh how they love
the Book of Esther, which is in such fine tune with their
blood-thirsty, eager-for-revenge murderous desires and hopes! The sun has
never shone upon a more blood-thirsty and revenge-hungry people, than
these who think of themselves as God's People, that they should murder and
throttle the heathens."

In the year 1848, the Bishop of
Paderborn, Dr. Konrad Martin, an entirely "unsuspect"
witness and an eminent expert in Jewish antiquity and customs, wrote in
the (7) Katholischen Vierteljahrschrift für
Kunst und Wissenschaft [Catholic Quarterly Review of Art and
Science] about "the accusation that Jews seized Christian children in
order to shed their blood during the Easter holiday," according to the
example of the Abbot and Orientalist Chiarini, the following
striking sentence:

"To want to deny that Jews, at various times
and locations have committed such crimes, is to erase from the books of
history 30-40(1)
recorded and established facts, and it is to destroy all the monuments
which several cities have preserved unto the present day, along with the
traditions involved in such an abominable attempt at assassination."
[It is almost certain that all such public and/or church monuments and
inscriptions -- and there were a surprising number of them -- have been
removed and destroyed by those who are the actual rulers of
Europe.]

Under the pressure of historical material, even the
Vatican saw itself forced on 18 November 1913 to render its expert
opinion unmistakably on the matter of Jewish ritual-murder as follows: "It
is to be regarded as proven that it is an old Jewish custom to murder
Christian children at Easter time." The documents relating to this, in the
original texts written by the popes, are found in the Vatican
Library.

Already in 1892 the Milan Osservatore Catolico
published a list of 154 attempted or completed ritual-murders, from which
it emerged that Jews sacrifice the blood of non-Jews on Good
Friday.

But when, a year after the victory of National Socialism in
Germany, a Catholic opponent of the Jews maintained the fact of the
ritual-murder custom in Austria in 1934 in a special monograph, the papers
distanced themselves from him and his work was generally discredited
because it "was un-Christian" (Theodor Fritsch: Handbuch der
Judenfrage [Handbook of the Jewish Question]).

It is
natural that international Jewry, even after the murder instructions of
its secret law books had become known to a larger circle in excellent and
unimpeachable translations -- beginning with those of Eisenmenger
and up through Erich Bischoff -- (8)
denied, making all possible explanations, that these crimes were
committed. The investigations which lie before us should help to
demonstrate the dishonesty of this technique.

Moreover, Judah
itself has always had a very bad conscience. Thus, during the middle of
the 13th century (see the passages relating to this in this book) a Jew
who had mutilated his female servant for ritual purposes was prevented
from confessing the true reasons for the crime shortly before his
execution, so that he might not be able to say anything to the detriment
of Judaism.

On the occasion of the ritual-murder trial at Damascus
in 1840, there was an attempt with enormous expenditure of money
and just as great political pressure, to cause a personage in authority to
omit the planned translation of the Talmud and other books, using
the extremely revealing argument that this would mean a "humiliation of
the Jewish Nation."

But in truth, "the Jews no longer had the hope
of denying what was proven during the course of the trial, namely that the
blood of all non-Jews belongs to them." Thus a French compiler of the
trial, Achille Laurent, expressed it, in his work dealing with the
entire trial against the Jews in Damascus, which was published in
1846 in Paris and soon disappeared in a mysterious manner (Volume
II, 1846, page 292, cited by G.d. Mousseaux; see more about this below.):
"Swallowed up by Jewish gold, this historical memorial has almost
completely vanished; one still comes across some single copies only in the
places which are unreachable by Jewish claws. Translated in Italy
and reissued several times there, the same persecutory rage descended upon
it and made it disappear. The publication of P. de Mondovi of
Marseilles about the same subject is likewise unable to be found,
although it had several editions.

This hunting down [of such
works] has its good reasons. One does not seek to destroy trial documents
if one is innocent of the crimes which they contain. . ."(Henri
Desportes: Le mystère du sang chez juifs de tous les temps,
Paris, Savine, 1889, page 189).

Of what further dangerous things
there are in the Jewish books of law, the Jews themselves know very well.
(9) A Lemberg Jewish paper (2) wrote
thusly: "To promote a translation of the Schulchan aruch(3), is a
base thing and a forgetting of God. For this translation, should it occur
(which may God prevent!) will necessarily bring down upon us the misery of
our brothers 300 years ago in Spain." -- Let it be noted:
"necessarily"!

To the Orientalist Johann Andreas
Eisenmenger, who died totally impoverished in Heidelberg in
1704 in a "sudden death," 10,000 Taler were "bid," if his work were
left unpublished -- according to the valuation of money at the time, this
was a sum from which he could have lived comfortably. But since he
assessed truth higher and his book Entdecktes Judentum [Judaism
Discovered], despite repeated attempts at bribery, nevertheless did
appear, it was confiscated by the political pressure of World
Jewry.

Another scholar, Raabe, who translated the
Mishnah, the basic text of the Talmud, completed about
200 A.D., received from a Mannheim Jewish middleman an offer of
3000 Taler together with a beautiful villa on the Rhine, if he gave up the
publication of his work. . .At the beginning of the 19th century the
revelations of Neophyte concerning the Jewish blood-practice
appeared. Behind this name was concealed, as could first be determined
many decades later, the former Rabbi Noe Weinjung. His work was
extirpated by his racial comrades, and it would have been completely lost
to the future if some Greek and Italian translations, which also have
again become very rare, had not been done. Weinjung himself was rescued in
a Romanian cloister from the death threats of the Jewish mob, which was
scared off. But subsequently, in order to defame his revelations, which
totally agreed in their frightful details even with future blood-practice
committed by Jewry, the Jews declared in all places of the world that the
work of Neophyte had been generated in a
"drunken-delirium"(!)

Brafmann(4), to
whom one owes informative revelations about (10) the rabbinate, was poisoned in accord with
Talmudic murder-laws at the end of the previous century -- just as
happened to a Chevalier Gougenot des Mousseaux, who was so
"incautious" as to also mention some ritual-murders in his work: Der
Jude, das Judentum and die Verjudung der christlichen Völker [The
Jew, Judaism, and the Judafication of the Christian Peoples].

A
"sudden death" overtook Doctor Pinner at the moment when he had
translated the first part of the Talmud. . .Others, who could not
be immediately eliminated for one reason or another, were nonetheless
slowly harried to death with the same end result, with the support of
authorities belonging to the Jews and by "Christian" theologians; such was
the case for Justus-Briman, who published his Judenspiegel oder
100 neuenthüllte, heutzutage noch geltende Gesetze der Juden
[Jewish Mirror or 100 newly discovered and still currently valid laws
of the Jews], and also for the Orientalist at the University at
Münster, Jakob Ecker, who completed and wrote commentaries
for the Jewish-Mirror, and even beyond his death in 1912 --
he died as a highly respected Professor at the Bishop's Priest Seminary at
Trier; he was slandered in shameless fashion by the Weimar Regional Rabbi
Wiesen. About the treatment which was accorded to the Prague
University Professor August Rohling, a book hardly laudable to the
situation obtaining in the Royal and Imperial Monarchy could be written,
and even in the most recent times, 1933, the hospitality of Leiden
University was withdrawn from Johann von Leers by the old
Huizinga, because the German scholar had also written about Jewish
ritual-murder. . .

With these names only a few striking examples
have been emphasized -- they will be dealt with yet in another
connection.

Jewry knew why it persecuted these men with downright
satanic hatred, Maimonides knew why he taught: "If an unbeliever
reads the Talmud, so has he deserved death . . .":
Ritual-murder exists not just in the "hysterical fantasy of out-worn
superstition," the confessions of ritual-murderers can not be subsequently
devalued as "extracted by torture," on the contrary, they are documentary
and authentically evidentiary records of Jewish murder, which prove as
factual the occurance of ritual murders up to our own time, for Jewish
ritual crimes will be committed as long as the Chosen People are at all
able to encyst themselves in Gentile humanity, and as long as the (11) true reason for these satanic crimes is not
shown in all sharpness: as a lawfully dictated, repeated with strange
regularity, tied neither to place nor time, and conscious profanation of
the non-Jew who is considered the equivalent of cattle; crimes which
because of this have never been totally fought against because their
secret motives remained unknown and the non-Jew, confronting these facts
in stunned bewilderment, still seemed inclined to submit himself to the
blood-monster of the Jewish desert-god.

During the course of the
centuries, in warding off these Jewish crimes and their perpetrators, the
people oftentimes grasped at self-help, though no lasting success attended
it, since the protection of those to whom the blood and honor of the
people was entrusted, faltered. But the people nonetheless emotionally and
correctly recognized what their spiritual or secular authorities in nearly
all cases either didn't want, or were not allowed, to see -- that the Jew
and his crimes are constantly and unalterably the same, or, as a
chronicler plainly and rightly says in his description of the martyrdom of
a child kidnapped for ritual-murder in the year 1724: "The Jews are
still Jews, and not one hair better than they were before this" (Ignatius
Zach von Wilthau: Das heilige Kind Andreas von Rinn, Augsburg,
1724) [The Holy Child Andreas of Rinn]. Two centuries earlier the
great adversary of Luther, D. Johann Eck of Ingolstadt, in his
book: Ains Judenbuechlins velegung [Publication of a little
Jewish Book], Ingolstadt, 1541, establishes the same thing: ". . .Thus
there is no more blood-thirsty a people on the earth than the Jews, for
they are blind, constipated, and of a hardened heart. . .not even a
miracle is of help to them. . ."

What is to follow is not a matter
of issuing a list of documentarily proven Jewish ritual-murders which has
any claim to completeness. Such a list would be endless.

We wish to
make clear that the cases before us represent only a tiny fraction of that
horrifying murder which has replayed itself before our terrified eyes in
centuries and millennia.

In this investigation, according to
opportunity, only those cases should be collected which in the course of
time were intentionally placed ad acta, (12)
or which have been retained as especially typical and informative
in regard to this type of Jewish murder-plague and its
accomplices.

One question naturally occurs: Are ritual-crimes still
possible today?

As mentioned at the beginning, they are still
possible anywhere, even today, and are actually committed where Judah
believes itself to be unobserved, and can bleed a people, as we can prove
by means of unerring evidence, for the Jewish blood-intoxication is as old
as the Jewish tribe itself and is commanded by the blood-god
Yahweh.

The New Germany would have the right to be freed from
Jewish murders; the representatives of the "Chosen People" living among us
know that the mere attempt or the mere preparation for such a murder would
unleash measures against it which would put Judah in an even greater state
of shock.

In 169 B.C., the Temple of Jerusalem was
plundered. The King Antiochus Epiphanes of Syria discovered a
hidden chamber in which a Greek was found, who implored the king for
rescue: he said that he had been lured into the Temple by Jews and held
prisoner. In response to his questions, his guards had told him that a
secret law existed with the Jews which commanded them to sacrifice a human
being each year at a certain time. (Apion in his -- as is typical
-- vanished book Gegen die Juden [Against the Jews]. The
above passage is cited in the counter-argument of the Jew Josephus:
Josephus contra Apionem, II, 8) [Josephus against Apion].
Among other things, Josephus asks: ". . .Why should the Jews have chased
after only the Greeks, when other strangers still travelled through
Palestine!" We can only respond: They took the very men whom a favorable
opportunity placed in their hands! It is conspicuous that Josephus, among
the very feeble arguments in his "defense," did not introduce the very
ones which are brought up first and foremost today by the Jews, that in
particular it is strictly forbidden to the Jews to consume blood, that the
"heathens" are held to be "unclean", and so forth. (See Ghillany: Die
Menschenopfer der alten Hebräer, page 545 and following.) [Human
Sacrifice of the Ancient Hebrews].

In the old voluminous
Socratic Church history from the 5th century A.D., it says among other
places in the 16th chapter of (13) the 7th
book, that in the year 418 on a Jewish feast day, several
Jews in the Imnestar region (which lies between Chalcis and Antioch) where
they were accustomed to arrange their "comedies," stretched out a
Christian boy on a cross to mock Christians and finally scourged him to
death -- an early prelude to the many later,
carried-out-according-to-plan, bloody acts, as here a boy in his tenderest
years is tortured to death while his limbs are stretched out in the form
of a cross -- so, too, a thousand years later at Trent. What an
endless chain of Jewish blood-murders, though, lies between the
two!

In the year 614 the Jews purchased from the Persian
King Chosroës II, 90,000 prisoners for an insignificant sum after the
conquest of Jerusalem, in order to then sacrifice them all in the cruelest
way (Cluverus, Epitome hist., p. 386; Hosman, p.92).

At
Easter time of the year 1144 (Bollandists, März III,
588/91) [March III] the Jews at Norwich in England
took prisoner a twelve-year-old boy William, chained him and pierced the
body of their victim with sharp instruments. The blood flowing from out of
a wound near the heart was collected. In order to retard the rate of blood
flowing out, the sadistic murderers basted the child's head with hot
water. The corpse was put into a sack and thrown outside of the place into
the shrubbery. The chief official of the place, who had been bribed by the
Jews, held back a detailed announcement. Finally, however, the murder was
atoned for. The victim was canonized by the Church. England had still
further blood-crimes to record in the 12th century, as in 1160 at
Glouchester (Mon. Germ. hist. Script. VI, 520; Boll.,
März III , 589). [View image of William from
Norwich Cathedral here]

In 1181, under the government of
Henry II, the chronicler reported a completed ritual-slaughter of the boy
Robert at Easter time in London (Boll., März
III, 589).

According to the Monumenta Historica
Germaniae [Historical Records of Germany] (Scriptores,
vol. VI and also Acta sanct. März III, 591) during the Easter
feast of 1171 a boy from Blois was crucified and thrown into
the Loire in a sack. Count Theobald of Chartres had the leaders
burned. Those who converted to Christianity were pardoned.

In
France, furthermore, in the cellar of the castle of Pontoise (14) on the 25th of March of the year
1179, a boy was scourged by Jews and stretched on a cross to be
bled to death under the mocking shouts from a raging mob of Jews. The
child has entered the roll of martyrs as "Holy Richard of Paris" and is
highly revered by the people (Boll., März III, 591) . His body
rests in the Church of the Innocents at Champeaux. [What a contrast there
is between 1943, when this was still true, and the Paris of 2001, where a
Jew is "Minister of Culture" and of course doing his utmost to annihilate
and miscegenate every last trace of genuinely French/European culture from
the country.]

D'Arbois de Jubainville reports in his
Geschichte der Herzöge und Grafen der Champagne [History of the
Dukes and Counts of Champagne] (Paris, 1865, Part I, page 72) under
the date of April 15 of the year 1192, the following facts: The
Jews of Braisne had crowned a Christian with thorns, led him
through the streets with hands bound behind his back, whipped and
crucified him; this happened under the eyes of the Countess Agnes von
Dreux who had been bribed by the Jews. "The outrage was universal.
King Philipp August, just returned from the Holy Land, went in
person to Braisne and had 80 Jews burned." The king had the firm
conviction that annually during Holy Week the Jews secretly
sacrificed a Christian. Although the Jews in his kingdom, but especially
in Paris -- the "Jewish Athens" of that time -- had great influence, this
king found the rare courage to take draconian retaliatory measures. The
Jew Caro in his Sozial- und Wirtschaftsgeschichte der Juden
[Social and Economic History of the Jews], I, page 362, speaks
however of a "cruel procedure in Bray-sur-Seine (1192), when 80 and more
(Jews) met their death," but prudently omits statements which approach the
reasons for this "persecution of the Jews"!

In the 13th
century this terrible custom seems to have spread more and more. In
Zaragoza the Jews made a law among themselves that anyone who
delivered a Gentile child into captivity should be free from all debts and
fees. During the long reign of King Alfonso X the "Wise"
(1252-1284) countless ritual crimes, in part judicially and historically
attested, occurred on Spanish soil. Alfonso X of Castile was
finally so convinced of the fact of blood-murder, that in the 24th volume
of the penal code Las Partides (named after the the seven
divisions) authored by him, he enclosed the following regulation in his
own hand: "Since it is legally proven and established that the Jews (15) annually murder Christian children before
their feast of Easter for the mocking and humiliation of
Christianity and likewise for the goal of blood-sacrifice , I
command that every Jew who is convicted of such a crime, or who even, for
the purpose of of the symbolic mockery of Christendom, crucifies a figure
representing a Christian copied out of wax, will become a child of death!"
Jews were not allowed to leave the house during the Eastertime. The
sexual intercourse of the Jews with Christian women was made punishable by
death. Truly, a wise king, but unfortunately an exceptional phenomenon in
terms of his conduct. (Géza von Ónody, p. 79; see also G. Caro II, 239).
In the year 1220 at Weißenburg in Alsace the child Heinrich
was killed by Jews (Acta sanct., April II, p. 505). Jews in Munich
extracted from a small child by means of piercings and incisions all the
blood, "while they made use of their customary criminal practices" (H.
Desportes, p. 65). The crime was discovered by accident: 140 Jews were
condemned to a fiery death (see Meichelbeck, Geschichte von
Freising, II, 94)[History of Freising].

In the year
1235 the population of Germany grasped at self-help against this
murder-plague after a series of bestial murders: From 1 - 3 January of the
year 1235 (Aronius, Regesten z. Gesch. d. Juden in fränk. u. deutsch.
Reich, page 206)[Collection of Documents for the History of the
Jews in the French and in the German Kingdom] as a result of the
murder of a boy there, a persecution of the Jews took place at Lauda and
the neighboring Tauberbischofsheim (Baden), at which houses and
property of the Jews were destroyed by the enraged crowd and eight highly
placed Jews were burned. At the beginning of December of the same year the
population of Wolfesheim (at Straßburg) also resorted to self-help:
after the murder of a citizen 18 Jews are supposed to have been killed in
the course of the persecution.

A general wave of outrage moved over
Germany when two Fulda Jews on Christmas Day 1235 attacked
five boys in the mill of a miller who lived in front of the gates of the
city and had gone to Holy Mass with his wife, miserably killed the boys,
collected their blood in a prepared pouch and finally had set fire to the
mill to cover the tracks of their bestial atrocity. But the bodies of the
children were brought as corpora delicti into the Reichspfalz to
Haganau to the Emperor (16) Frederick
II; their arrival set the population into terror and outrage. But the
Emperor, after shortly before having received a high sum of money from
Jewish hands, merely gave the answer: "If they are dead, so go and bury
them, since they're of no use for anything else" (Si mortui sunt, ite,
sepelite eos, quia ad aliud non valent. -- Aronius, page
208).

The citizens of Fulda nonetheless took another position,
understandable to us: with the cooperation of crusaders who were present
there, they slew 32 Jews of their city, men and women. Since a general
persecution of Jews loomed, the Jew-owned Frederick II summoned an
assembly of clerical and secular princes to Hagenau in July
1236. But after he had again been successfully bought off with
large sums from the Jews (accepta tamen a Judeis magna pecunia,
Aron., page 217), he appeared convinced of the innocence of the Jews. The
Jews achieved acquittal and beyond that, an imperial letter of protection.
Everyone was forbidden to express further accusations against Jews. "For
tracking down the truth" from the lands of all the lords "baptismal
candidates (thus baptized Jews) experienced in the Jewish law" were
summoned, who "did not tarry long at court" and who reached the result
that "neither in the Old or the New Testament is it found that the Jews
are greedy after human blood. . .We allow the fact with very firm
acceptance, that those very people for whom the blood of even permitted
animals is forbidden, could have no thirst for human blood, because of the
terribleness of the thing, because Nature forbids it and because of the
kind of relationship which associates it with the Christians. . ."
(5)

Ten years later Pope Innocent IV based his decision upon
the Imperial pronouncement of judgment from July of that same year, which
delivered the nation up to even future Jewish murderers and
child-desecrators. With explicit reference to the events of Fulda, this
pope acquitted the Jews from the suspicion that they made use of the blood
for ritual purposes after the commission of a blood-murder of a
twelve-year-old girl on Tuesday of Easter week of 1247 in Valréas
(Department Vaucluse); (17) he [stated that
he], the Pope, did not want Jews, whose conversion was awaited by the
Lord, to be unfairly (!) persecuted. The bishops in Germany received an
express papal directive on 5 July 1247, to show favor and
mercy to the Jews and "to legitimize their status" (Aron., p. 242) (6). In
this position of "legitimized status" sanctioned by Emperor and Pope, the
Jews were able to continue to lead their victims to slaughter; the
defenders of the slaughterer Buschhoff at his blood-murder trial in
Xanten in 1892, were still referring to the Enquette of
1236!

The historian Matthias Parisiensis reports, according
to the account of the Hungarian diplomat Géza von Ónody(7), that
during the reign of King Henry III, the Jews of Norwich kidnapped a
Christian child in 1235, kept him locked up and fed for a year in
order to slaughter him as sacrificial lamb for the celebration of the
Passover festival. The execution of the crime was prevented through
a betrayal, and the Jews who were brought before the King confessed the
intended ritual-slaughter in all of its details. Henry III imposed a
lenient punishment, allegedly out of charitableness. The Jews showed their
thanks by committing an entirely similar type of crime hardly a year
later. In this case a child was held prisoner in a shack belonging to the
estate of a rabbi.

The Bishop of Norwich brought criminal
charges against the murderous pack. After several fruitless attempts at
bribery, the four main culprits were condemned to death and were broken on
the wheel. The French historian Basnaye, who describes in all his
works the accusations against the Jews as "malicious inventions," makes an
exception in his mention of this case, for he writes: "It seems that the
Jews of Norwich were incorrigible, since within five years they
were condemned for the same crime four (18)
times."(8) -- A
similar crime occurred on 1 December 1235 at Erfurt (Desportes, page
66).

In 1239 a general uprising of the people broke out,
caused by a murder committed there secretly by the Jews. In 1240 --
again at Norwich -- the Jews circumcised a non-Jewish child
and kept him hidden in the Ghetto under the alias Jurnim with the
intention of crucifying the victim later. The father found his child after
a long search in the Jewish Quarter and filed charges with the Bishop
William of Rale. The latter had four of the Jews who were convicted
of the crime hanged on the gallows, "where they gasped out the rest of
their miserable lives."

In 1244 in the cemetary of St.
Benedict in London, the corpse of a boy was found which showed
areas of ashen-paleness and cuts as well as Hebrew characters in several
places. Baptized Jews were forced to explain these characters, found the
names of the parents of the child and read that he had been sold to the
Jews when very young. The wealthiest Jews secretly left the city at this
time
(9).

In the year 1250, in Aragon, at the end of August
Moses Albay-Huzet (Albayuceto) delivered the seven-year-old
Dominicus del Val to the Jews for crucifixion (Acta sanct.,
6th Volume of August, pp. 777-783). The victim had been nailed to a wall;
the stabbed body was deposited on the banks of the Ebro River. In the same
year a rabbi sacrificed a Christian child in his own house at
Orsona in Castile (Henri Desportes, Le mystère du sang chez les
juifs de tous les temps; Paris, Savine, 1889, p. 67).

The most
awful crime of English Jews which was judicially established, is reported
by Géza von Ónody according to authentic court sources, in his book about
Tisza-Eszlár. Before the feast day of Sts. Peter and Paul in the
year 1255, the Jews in Lincoln kidnapped the eight-year-old
(later canonized) boy Hugh and brought him into the house of the Head
Rabbi there, (19) Copinus; after the
child had been held prisoner and flogged daily for twenty-six days, his
executioners formed a law court and brought the innocent creature before
it. A Jew played the role of Pilate and condemned the child to death on
the cross. The rest of the Jews present functioned as executioner's
henchmen. The child was nailed to the cross and made to bleed to death.
When the guiltless victim had finally expired under the most terrible
torments, the Jews ripped the bowels from out of his body and prepared
various talismans from them (10). The
mutilated corpse was thrown in a well, which led to the discovery of the
crime. The chief perpetrator, the Head Rabbi, was dragged to death by
horses, while the accomplices died on the gallows; the threads of the
crime extended back to London, and in total 91 Jews were imprisoned. But
the judicial investigation further brought the following to light: The
Jews of Lincoln had "invited" to this horrible spectacle of the
crucifixion four participants from every city of England which had a
Jewish community; they confessed that such sacrifices occurred annually in
the Jewish congregations, that most remained undiscovered since they
"happened in secret in concealed locations". Schudt (IV, Chapter
11, p. 140) wrote in 1714: "A cruel and Jewish wicked abomination
was was practiced among them, every year around the time of Easter,
although it is not known generally, of stealing a young boy, to circumcise
him and after a "solemn" condemnation . . .to crucify him, out of
their devilish malice. . ."

On the 14th of September (at the time
of the Jewish "festival of Atonement") of the year 1279, the Jews
at Northhampton likewise put a child to death on the cross. This
beastly crime was also discovered and punished. On the 2nd of April of the
same year a crime of entirely the same kind occurred in London; here the
murderers were tied to horse tails and dragged to death through the
streets of London and their bodies hung on the gibbet (Henri
Desportes, Le mystère du sang, p. 67).

In this
century ritual-murders were repeated at all (20) parts of the British island; in May 1287
all the Jews of England were arrested and thrown into prison; in
1291 the Council in London under Edward I finally drew the
necessary conclusions and by command of the King banned "for all time"
this murder-plague from England. From then on, until the year 1657
there were no Jews in England (The Letter of Instruction, VI, 4, p.
167). According to a document of 1 July 1267 (Aronius) the Jews in
Pforzheim placed a seven-year-old girl Margaretha upon a
several-times folded piece of linen, wounded every joint in her body, and
with their combined strength squeezed out her blood, which was carefully
gathered into the linen. The corpse of the child was weighted with stones
and cast into a body of flowing water, where it was found after a few days
by fisherman, who noticed a hand sticking out of the water. The Jews
convicted of the crime were first broken on the wheel and then hanged. Two
of the murderous culprits mutually strangled each other in order to escape
the revenge of the people (Aronius, p. 306). The stabbed and cut-to-pieces
body of the girl was buried in a stone casket in the castle-church at
Pforzheim. The Dominican nuns at Pforzheim reported in their
chronicle, that the grave was opened in the year 1507 in the
presence of Cardinal Bernhard and the little corpse was found still
uncorrupted. In 1647 it was transferred to Baden. The
gravestone, still present in the castle-church at Pforzheim, declares
explicitly, handed down under the exact date, that the child was killed by
Jews: "Margaretha a Judeis occisa ob. feliciter Anno Domini MCCLXVII.
Cal. Jul. fer. VI" (Sachs: Geschichte der Markgrafschaft
Baden-Carlsruhe[History of the Margravate of Baden-Carlsruhe],
II, 1767, p. 15 and following -- Also briefly mentioned in the
Zeitschrift für die Geschichte des Oberrheins [Magazine for the
History of the Upper Rhine], IX, Karlsruhe, 1858, p. 271, Nr.
17).

In a later report the question is raised in connection with
this crime, as to why the Jews had the custom in every (!) nation in which
they were living, of shedding Christian blood. So one should surely know
that every year in each nation the relevant city or region would be chosen
by lot, which would have to supply the Christian blood necessary for
ritual purposes to the Jews (Thomas de Cantimpré: De vita
instituenda, II, Chapters 29, 23)!

Likewise around this time
(1270) a Jew at St. Dié, who (21) had
violated his Christian servant-girl after previously rendering her
unconscious in order to gain her blood -- the Jewish compiler of this
document speaks of an "operation" -- was brought before the court of the
Duke of Lotharingia and condemned. His execution was done in this
manner: tied to the tail of a horse, he was dragged to the gibbet and
hanged upside-down. The contemporary report, however, brings out the
following extremely typical turn of events: As the Jew, preparing himself
at the place of execution, wanted to speak once more, to confess the
reasons (!) for his crime, he was prevented from doing so by the
executioner, so that nothing to the disadvantage of his racial comrades
could be said (ne forte aliquid in opprobrium Judaeorum
loqueretur)! Obviously the executioner had been bribed beforehand,
although his corruption is called into doubt by the Jewish publisher of
the report(11).

In
Mainz a child was sold to the Jews by his nurse and slaughtered by the
former in April of the year 1283 (Athanasius Fern, Jüdische
Moral und Blut-Mysterium [Jewish Morals and the Blood-Mystery],
Leipzig, 1920, p. 23 and also Annales Colmariensis [Kolmar
Annals]).

In Munich in 1285 a small boy was stabbed all
over his body and made to bleed to death (Raderus, Bavaria sancta,
II, p. 331). The enraged populace is supposed to have locked 180 Jews --
unless this number is based upon an error in writing -- together inside
the wood-built synagogue and have burnt them by laying a fire around it.
Yet these measures of retaliation made no impression upon the Jews there:
already, a few decades later a Johann Aventin reports in his Annalen
Bajorum, Book VII, again from Munich, that a small boy named
Heinrich was slaughtered; all his veins had been opened and
countless piercing wounds had been inflicted.

The historian
Papebroch industriously collected in one volume of the Acta
Sanctorum, (April II, p. 697/740) all documents which refer to the
slaughter of the Werner from Oberwesel by St. Goar and thereby
gives us valuable material. In the middle of April of the year
1287, this young victim of satanic Jewish blood-thirst was (22) slowly tortured until he bled to death. To his
memory and as a memorial of this atrocity the (uncompleted)
St-Werners-Kapelle was later erected above Bacharach. Gougenot des
Mousseaux (in the translation by A. Rosenberg) covers the death of
Werner of Wesel from the Bollandists, "the mighty researchers in the field
of history," as follows: "It was a poor day-laborer 14 years old, named
Werner. The faithful of the Talmud took him into service and used
him to shovel out the dirt in a cellar. His landlady, uneasy about this,
said to him: 'Be careful of the Jews, Werner, for Good Friday is
approaching!'. . .The Jews dragged him into the cellar and gagged him. .
.then they bound him head downward to a wooden stand. Then they began to
strike the boy with a lash, opened his veins with his very own knife that
he carried with him, and squeezed the blood from his body. They let the
body hang, until all the blood had been gotten from it."

The judge
of Oberwesel, who "was not averse to money," was successfully bribed and
let the murderers go free with their "Rabbi."

In the following
year, 1288, the Jews of Bern at Easter, on the 17th
of April, kidnapped a boy named Rudolf, put him through
terrible sufferings, and finally slaughtered him in a cellar by cutting
his neck. The main perpetrators were broken on the wheel, and the
accomplices driven away. The council of the city decided from thence
forward not to suffer Jews and the victim was later canonized by the
Church (Acta sanct., 2nd Volume of April, p. 504).The grave of the
child in the parish church in Bern was a place of pilgrimage for
several centuries, "until the new Gospel [i.e., Lutheranism or Calvinism],
as those who believe differently like to say, came into fashion, and the
original reason of all this taken away. . ."(H. Murer, Helvetia
sancta, p. 299).

During these years, in Oberwesel, Bacharach,
Siegburg, and numerous other places, persecutions of the Jews broke out as
a consequence of repeated murders or attempted murders of children.
Emperor Rudolf I (1273-1291) von Habsburg received from Jewish
hands 20,000 Marks and commanded the Archbishop Heinrich of Mainz to
solemnly announce in a sermon that the Christians had done the Jews the
greatest injustice, and that the corpse of Werner should (23) be burnt and the ashes scattered to the winds!
"At this sermon of the Lord Archbishop, more than 500 armed Jews (!) sat
there so that, in case a Christian wanted to raise objections, they could
immediately kill him with their swords" (see Chronik von Kolmar,
II, Pabst, Berlin, 1867, p. 158). Later, Rudolf von Habsburg tried
to impose a tax on the Jews but was unable to put it through. . ." (Das.,
p. 163). The Jew Caro cynically remarks in his Sozial- und
Wirtschaftsgeschichte der Juden (II, p. 196):". . .The King finally
stepped in. Total calming of the aroused crowd did not, at any rate, take
place and for 1287 and the following years the names of martyrs of
a not inconsiderable portion of the community are handed down [to
us]. . ."

In 1288, on the 24th of April, under the reign of
Philipp IV of France, 13 Jews at Troyes in Champagne were delivered to the
stake after a ritual crime. (Caro II, 80).

In 1292 in
Kolmar a nine-year-old youngster was murdered by Jews (Annal.
Colmariensis, II, 30); in the same year there was a ritual-murder in
Constance, in 1294 in Bern, in 1302 in
Renchen (Baden). . ."There is an endless murdering" (Desp., p. 70,
and also Annales Colmariensis).

In 1303, at
Easter, Jews from Weißensee in Thuringia caught the
schoolboy Conrad and gave him a gruesome death, as they cut into
his muscles and opened his veins to squeeze out the blood. The desecrated
corpse they hung up to mock in a vineyard. Soldiers under the leadership
of Friedrich, the son of the Landgraf Albert of Thuringia, raided the
murder-band and quickly despatched them to their deaths. (Tenzel,
Monatliche Unterredungen[Monthly Discussions], July
1693, p. 556).

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