Hitler's Messianic Jews

Few realise that a vibrant community of Messianic Jews existed in Europe long before the Nazi's gained power in 1933. It is difficult to obtain reliable information about Messianic Judaism in Nazi Germany, at least information, can be difficult to obtain.

The article: Hitler, the Church and Messianic Jews from roshpinaproject.com writes:

"Arnold Frank’s Jerusalem Church in Hamburg was destroyed by the Nazis in 1942, his magazine Zions Freund was closed by the Nazis in 1936 with the last issue published that December. Messianic Jews and Missions to the Jews were seen as part of the Jewish threat to Aryan society and they were under Gestapo observation. Jewish Christians were being expelled from denominations and this led to the demand for a Hebrew Christian denomination to be set up for such people but never came to fruition

Frank, originally from an Orthodox Jewish background, was arrested by the Gestapo but released with British intervention and he fled to Britain. Many tens of thousands of Jewish Christians also perished in the Holocaust, when I made a mournful visit to Auschwitz many years ago there was a memorial to such victims with a Star of David with a cross inside it. The archive material of various Christian missionary societies active in pre-WWII Europe show very large number of Jewish disciples of Jesus, some commentators have even put the number as high as 225,000, most perished in the Holocaust."

Over 200,000 Messianic Jews are estimated to have perished in the Nazi Holocaust. Hitler wiped out vibrant communities of Messianic Jews. Few realise such communities existed and were also the victims of the holocaust. Hitler's hatred for the Jews extended to the Messianic Jewish communities. Yet this part of history is often ignored or written out. It would be interesting if anyone had more information about this topic.