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"I'd also submit that this is not true in the case of Italians or any of the Scandanavian states or the Netherlands. Before WWI it wasn't true of the Germans"

Well, maybe not a cultural norm in "the Scandanavian states or the Netherlands", but I beg to differ with you concerning the pre-WWI Italians and Germans.

FYI, if the German/Nazi Government hadn't been so rabidly antisemitic, they would of had the A-Bomb no later than 1943...

Italy wasn't antisemitic after Mussolini fell and the Germans occupied the country the Italian population went to great lengths to protect the jews. Ill revise my assement of Germany the northern Protestant Germans weren't antisemitic before WWI( and even during the 3rd reich the nazi pogroms and SS roundups got little help from the population despite the constant anti semitic propaganda Austria was a diffrent story spontaneous anti semitic riots broke out the minute the Wehrmarcht marched in). Prussia was a very philo semitic society. Hitler was Austrian, Eichmann was Austrian, Heydrich and Himmler were Bavarians.