And that’s why Hitler came. Because the vast majority of Jewish children were taken out of the Torah schools and given over willingly to the hands of atheists to be taught atheism; that’s why the Jewish children in Europe disappeared entirely.
There’s so much more that can be said. The Jewish community was on a roller coaster that was speeding downhill – the Torah was being abandoned all over Europe and Hashem was reacting.
And so when a man gets up here and yells at me – with indignation he yells! He says he asked everybody why such a thing happened in Europe and nobody could tell him.
Why did it happen?! It happened because it was foretold! It happened according to plan. יּƒמƒעּכו¿לּ≈ ̇ םƒ‡ יƒר∆ ̃ – If you will go along and say it’s accident; you’ll see the world as if it’s all due to natural causes, so יּƒ ̇¿כַלָה¿ויƒר∆ ̃ ַ̇מֲחַּב ם∆כָּמƒע – I will treat you the same way (Vayikra 26:21,24). The tochacha is a parsha in the Torah – it’s open pessukim. The mass defection from Judaism was unprecedented in the history of the world and therefore the terrible punishment that came was also unprecedented in the history of the world.
