Plundering the Jewish Alley during the Fettmilch riots in Frankfurt on 22 August, 1614,...

Plünderung der Judengasse während des Fettmilchaufstands am 22 August 1614; in the course of riots in Frankfurt between the craft guilds and the patrician rulers of the city, the Jews were also attacked and the Jewish Ghetto plundered, resulting in the expulsion of Jews; in 1616 the Jews were allowed to return by decree of the German Emperor, Matthias; the riots were called Fettmilch after their leader, a gingerbread baker, called Vinzenz Fettmilch; one of the last pogroms in Germany until the Nazi era; the Frankfurter Judengasse was a Jewish Ghetto in Frankfurt, one of the earliest and largest in Germany. It existed from 1462 until 1796.