While baking I was listening to Behind the Bastards on "the other Hitler", Julius Streicher, & I still can't get over the fact that in 1922 claiming children had been kidnapped for blood rituals by Jewish citizens led to an actual sentence of jail time (reduced on appeal to a fine, but still).

It's a striking reminder that we never *needed* brutality on a mass scale to know that defaming people was wrong.

And also, that the lesson is never fully learned.

A century later, how much has changed?