Jews were forced to wear red hats in venice in the days of shakespeare and shylock etc... not quite yellow stars but functionally the same thing ... and of course different rules applied.

They have been victimized and scapegoated in europe for hundreds of years so of course it was convenient for Germany's european enemies to be able to claim the moral high ground after the second world war and then magnanimously forgive the German layman for his part in the holocaust.

Those Jews who could not easily forgive and who could not get into america were conveniently packed off to palestine so that europe wouldn't have to face up to it's past and it's responsibilities.

The brits pushed the native palestinians off their land and generously "gave" it to europes jewish exiles.

And now the EU passes moral judgement on the politics of the middle east, where survivors of the holocaust were left to get over their pain on their own thanks very much surrounded by some very angry locals who wanted their farms and houses back.

It's not just germans that need to face up to europes unrelenting history of anti-semitism.

Oh and before anyone jumps to conclusions, I am an Irish catholic.