In Germany, COVID-19 postpones the revival of the Jewish Carnival tradition that the Nazis tried to end Cologne’s most festive event was set to receive its first official Jewish float in over 80 years, until the pandemic put the whole event on ice until at least 2021.
Europe’s modern anti-Semitic carnivals are carrying on a centuries-old tradition During the Middle Ages, Jews were made to run naked through the streets of Rome as locals pelted them with vegetables.
At another Spanish carnival, dancers equate Jews and Nazis alongside train and Auschwitz floats The display in Badajos occurred amid debate on the appropriateness of festive parades apparently making light of the murder of millions by the Nazis.
