The Supplication of Augsburg in the nineteenth century stated that Jews derived advantages from the general depression of trade and spoiled the market by selling goods at cheaper rates.
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The Pete Quiñones ShowOct 1, 2026
Werner Sombart's book quotes the 1803 Supplication of the Augsburg wholesale merchants against the admission of the Jews with the language the claim describes: Jews 'derive advantages from the general depression of trade' and 'spoil the market by selling them at a cheaper rate.' The claim's wording matches the passage, and 1803 falls within the nineteenth century.
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… Poland, he talks about the Swedish part. He has so many examples here. There's no denying it: Brandenburg, Frankfurt, Magdeburg. You know, it's the exact same thing over and over again. Um, and he quotes so many people. In the Supplication of Augsburg in the nineteenth century, Wholesale Merchants Against the Admission of the Jews, it says that the Jews understand how to derive advantages from the general depression of trade. They obtain goods from people who need money badly at shameful prices, then spoil the market by selling them at a cheaper rate. That seems kind of, well, most people, that's what is not what you do. Evil drove out the good because, while being good is difficult and evil was very well organized, it was a moral economy, and it gave way to capitalism and free trade, the stages of …
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Supports. Sombart's text quotes the Supplication of the Augsburg wholesale merchants (1803) as saying the Jews 'understand how to derive advantages from the general depression of trade' and 'spoil the market by selling them at a cheaper rate.'[1]
Supports. A second Sombart text dates the Supplication of the Augsburg wholesale merchants against the admission of the Jews to 1803 and cites it in a discussion of Jewish traders undercutting prices.[2]
Context. Sources on Augsburg's Jewish history confirm that Jews were barred from the city until the early 1800s and that an organized community was re-established there in 1803, which places the document in the period when the restrictions were being lifted.[3][4]
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- 1The Jews and Modern Capitalism Werner Sombartclassiques.uqam.ca · not rated · cited for: supports
- 2[PDF] The Jews and Modern Capitalism Werner Sombart Batoche Bookssocserv2.mcmaster.ca · not rated · cited for: supports
- 3Augsburgencyclopedia.com · not rated · cited for: context
- 4Augsburg, Germanyjewishvirtuallibrary.org · not rated · cited for: context
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