The Rhineland massacres
1096 · Event
Before any crusader reaches the East, armies whipped up by the preaching turn on the Jews of the Rhineland — Speyer, Worms, Mainz, Cologne — killing thousands despite bishops' attempts at protection. The crusade's first victims are Europeans; Jewish chronicles remember 1096 for centuries.
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