"Jeff" wrote
While the East-European Jews were often "set apart" by their various
customs, the German Jew were well integrated into society for more
than a century. Extreme prejudice does not require funning clothing
as a target.

I don't know about pre-ww2 Germany since I wasn't there but there must have
been some differences because the nazis had so little trouble identifying
Jews. By contrast one would have a hard time telling jews from non-jews
anywhere I have lived or worked in America if you didn't know a person well
enough to talk religion. Extreme prejudice may not require funny cloths but
it does require something discernable to set the victims apart from the
mainstream. I wonder what that was if German Jews were as well integrated
into the mainstream as US Jews.