German Jews

German Jews are Jews of German descent, or Jews living in Germany.

Holocaust

170,000 German Jews were killed in the camps during the Holocaust.^[1]

Jews wearing the pileus cornutus depicted ca. 1185 in the Hortus deliciarum of the Abbess Herrad of Landsberg.
Mobs of French and German Crusaders led by Peter the Hermit ravaged Jewish communities in Speyer, Worms, and Mainz during the Rhineland massacres of 1096.
Jews burned alive for the alleged host desecration in Deggendorf, Bavaria, in 1338, and in Sternberg, Mecklenburg, in 1492; a woodcut from the Nuremberg Chronicle (1493)
A picture of Moses Mendelssohn displayed in the Jewish Museum, Berlin, based on an oil portrait (1771) by Anton Graff in the collection of the University of Leipzig.
David Friedländer was a German-Jewish communal leader who promoted Jewish emancipation in the Holy Roman Empire.
The synagogue in Celle was built in 1740 and is still in use.
"The Return of the Volunteer from the Wars of Liberation to His Family Still Living in Accordance with Old Customs", by Moritz Daniel Oppenheim
Map of the Hep-Hep riots in 1819 (German)