The Crusade That Began With a Massacre at Home
In 1096, before they ever saw Jerusalem, crusaders turned on the Jews of the Rhineland. In Speyer, Worms and Mainz, whole communities were wiped out in weeks.
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The Experiments of Emperor Frederick II
A Franciscan chronicler said Emperor Frederick II starved babies of speech, sealed a man in a cask to watch him die and had two men disembowelled after dinner.