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7、Conspiracy Theorists Used It To Persecute Jews
陰謀家借鼠疫迫害猶太教徒
With the plague decimating Europe during the 14th century, Christians and Jews started playing the blame game. An estimated 25 million people died in the first part of 1348, and a rumor soon began that the plague was a Jewish conspiracy to wipe out Christianity. Supposedly, the conspiracy had begun in Toledo, Spain and spread throughout Europe.
當(dāng)14世紀(jì)鼠疫在歐洲肆虐時(shí)，猶太教和基督教開始借此相互攻擊。在1348年一次造成2500萬人死亡的鼠疫過后，一個(gè)傳言迅速流傳開來，傳言說鼠疫是猶太教企圖抹殺基督教的陰謀。據(jù)推測，該陰謀開始于托萊多，西班牙并且傳播到了歐洲。
The Count of Savoy started arresting and interrogating Jews, determined to find his version of the truth. His brutal torture elicited many confessions of responsibility, mostly people confessing to poisoning town and city water supplies. The count sent these confessions to other towns as a warning, but the people there took them more seriously. Hundreds of Jewish settlements were burned to the ground, and countless people were murdered.
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伯爵開始逮捕審訊猶太教徒，決心找出他所謂的“真相”。他殘酷的拷問叫許多人認(rèn)罪，多數(shù)都承認(rèn)在城市和鄉(xiāng)村的供水中投毒。伯爵將這些“認(rèn)罪”作為警告發(fā)往其他城鎮(zhèn)鄉(xiāng)村，但那些地方對此作出了更加激烈的反應(yīng)。上百的猶太教場所被焚毀，無數(shù)教徒被屠殺。
In Strasbourg, nobility and city authorities clashed over whether to massacre their Jewish citizens. The nobles figured doing so could remove the threat of plague and their creditors in one go. On Valentine’s Day 1349, around 2,000 Jews burned on a massive wooden platform in Strasbourg, their wealth seized and redistributed among the Christian nobles.
在斯特拉斯堡，貴族階級和市政府爭論是否應(yīng)該屠殺他們當(dāng)?shù)匦叛霆q太教的市民。貴族們指出這樣做可以解除鼠疫的威脅并同時(shí)消滅他們的債主。在1349年情人節(jié)當(dāng)天，約2000名基督徒在斯特拉斯堡內(nèi)的一處大型木質(zhì)平臺上被活活燒死，他們的財(cái)產(chǎn)也被當(dāng)?shù)刭F族掠奪瓜分。
The plague still came to Strasbourg. It took 16,000 lives.
但瘟疫依然來到了斯特拉斯堡。它帶走了16000條人命。
