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The First Crusade got off to a terrible start. The initial armies, referred to by historians as the 'People's Crusade' and the 'German Crusade' were little more than bands of brigands and discontented peasants and minor nobility. Indeed, the German contingents never made it anywhere near Constantinople, and instead conducted a ruthless attack on the German Jews in what has been called the 'First Holocaust.' Find out what happened in this episode.

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