(As detailed in Part 1 of this series, Europe’s two-millennia catalog of savage conduct—from papal decrees of perpetual servitude to royal expulsions and ecclesiastical cages—reveals an immutable pathology. Part 2 exposed how this pathology exploded into the 20th century’s record of blood, from state-sanctioned expulsions and civilian-led pogroms to deliberate starvation, culminating in the Holocaust’s industrialized slaughter. Part 3 examined the modern masquerade: antizionism as recycled hatred, with European states like Spain, Belgium, and Ireland weaponizing law and rhetoric against Jewish self-defense while ignoring their own unrepented atrocities. This final part analyzes the economic and demographic suicide of a continent that chose to purge its own intellectual engine.)

In 1933, 9.5 million Jews lived in Europe, representing a mere 1.7% of the population but a vastly disproportionate share of its intellectual engine. By 1945, Europe had slaughtered six million of its most productive citizens. This was not a demographic shift; it was a self-inflicted lobotomy. German Jews, comprising less than 1% of the population, accounted for approximately 25% of German Nobel laureates by 1933. In the East, the yeshivas of Vilna—the “Jerusalem of the North”—cultivated a rigor of critical analysis that, once secularized, fueled legal and academic brilliance across the West. Having purged this intellectual capital, Europe has stagnated economically. Israel’s 6% GDP spend on R&D and its NASDAQ leadership contrast sharply with Europe’s stagnation and its shift toward a service-based economy that can no longer produce “Einstein-level” breakthroughs.

The 1945–2000 era was merely a momentary reflexive glitch of guilt. Now that the glitch has corrected, Europe has reverted to its factory settings—viewing Jews as tolerated guests rather than accepted citizens. Europe did not just replace 6 million Jews; they replaced 40 million potential descendants who would have been the world’s leading scientists with a demographic that often represents a net fiscal drain.........

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