Editing Peter the Hermit (section)

===Massacre of Jewish civilians===
In the spring of 1096 Peter was one of the prominent involved in the [[Rhineland massacres]] against Jews.<ref>{{cite book|author=Robert Chazan|title=European Jewry and the First Crusade|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=sndVK_foqI4C&pg=PA56|year=1996|publisher=U. of California Press|pages=55–58|isbn=9780520917767 }}</ref> Peter and his troops participated in the torture and slaughter of Jews in [[Lorraine]], [[Cologne]], [[Worms, Germany|Worms]], [[Speyer]] and [[Mainz]].<ref name=":1" /> In Mainz, Peter's followers killed a large group of Jews that had been granted refuge by a local bishop in exchange for money. Death toll estimations vary from 2,000 - 2,800 civilians; some speak about 5,000 or even 10,000 people killed. These killings are known as ''Gzerot Tatnó'' (Hebrew: גזרות תתנ"ו, Edicts of 4856).<ref>Salomo ben Simson, Bericht über die Verfolgung der jüdischen Gemeinden im deutschen Reich während des Ersten Kreuzzugs 1096, http://www.geschichtsquellen.de/werk/4282</ref> Another group had been led by the knight count [[Emicho|Emicho of Leiningen]] who provoked the group to the massacres.<ref name=":0" />