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During the Second Crusade, the Army of Peasants began to slaughter the Jews of Europe in several towns on the way to Constantinople. Why did they do this? Wasn't their enemy the Seljuq Turks? What did the Pope think about these massacres? Did anyone speak out against them?

by /u/George_S_Patton_III in /r/AskHistorians

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