The Rintfleisch or Rindfleisch movement is a series of massacres against Jews in the year 1298.
The event, in later terminology a pogrom, is the first large-scale persecutions in Germany since the First Crusade.
"Human history becomes more and more a race between education and catastrophe... Yet, clumsily or smoothly, the world, it seems, progresses and will progress."
― H.G. Wells, The Outline of History, Vol 2 (1920)