Quote Originally Posted by Baba Ga'on
One thing to remember is that antisemitism in Europe is a couple of centuries older than the state of Germany

However, I would like to know more about this crash. Before reading this thread I didn't even know it had happened
There is some info in the German Wiki:

http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gr%C3%BCnderkrach

Of course there is an English site too, but it has less information.