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Anonymous Posted 10 years ago
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One could say that even if most of the Nazi claims about the Jews were true – they exploit Germans; they seduce German girls – [which] they were not, of course, their anti-Semitism would still be (and was) pathological, since it represses the true reason why the Nazis needed anti-Semitism in order to sustain their ideological position.
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I don't know [which] in the above sentence denotes what?
  

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Anonymous [which] in the above sentence denotes what? 'claims'

  • Anonymous [which] in the above sentence denotes what?
  • 'claims'
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Anonymous[which] in the above sentence denotes what?
'claims'
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[which] they were notI thought that "they" denotes claims, (they are not = claims are not true.) but I was wrong. Which denotes claims and they denotes what?
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One could say that even if most of the **** claims about the Jews were true – they exploit Germans; they seduce German girls – "which" "they" were not, of course, their anti-Semitism would still be (and was) pathological, since it represses the true reason why the ***** needed anti-Semitism in order to sustain their i
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Anonymousyet I still don't know why "which" is embeded before 'they are not'
I misread it. This is how I would replace all the pronouns with nouns:

One could say that even if most of the **** claims about the Jews were true – [the Jews] exploit Germans; [the Jews] seduce German girls – which [their claims] were not [true] of course — [the *****'] a
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Mister MicawberOne could say that even if most of the **** claims about the Jews were true – [the Jews] exploit Germans; [the Jews] seduce German girls – which [their claims] were not [true] of course — [the *****'] anti-Semitism would still be (and was) pathological, since [their anti-Semitism] represses the true reason why the ***** needed anti-Semitism in order to sust

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