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"The foreign conquerors come and go;
we obey, but we stop."

There can be no talk of cruel persecutions of the Jews by the tolerant Germanic conquerors. On the contrary, the Jews were often successful in gaining high positions of trust through their interpreting services and healing skills, through their business acumen, through their dexterity in procuring and exploiting the goods. But again and again they attracted the hatred of the people: through their arrogance and mockery of Christianity, through their slave trade and the keeping of Christian slaves, through their parasitic, exploitative activity.

The history of Spain, which was repeatedly celebrated by the Jews as their "second promised land", is especially instructive. Here, when the Visigoths conquered the country in the 5th century, they found many rich Jewish communities. And later, when the opposition between the Germanic "heretics" and the Roman (Welsh) Orthodox believers intensified, the Jews sided with the Goths in this dispute between the two Christian denominations and received great benefits in return. But with this their arrogance grew, and when in 586 the Gothic king Rekkared transferred to the Roman Catholic Church, the change began. First of all, old laws were renewed:

>Exclusion of Jews from public office,

>Prohibition of marriage between Christians and Jews,

>Prohibition of owning Christian slaves.