According to Goetz Aly, a German Historian, anti-Semitism was actually less Prevalent in The Wilhelmine Empire up to WW1. There was still definitely anti-Semitism. In the 1790s, Jakob Friedrich Fries (Karl Marx's dissertation adviser) had been protesting for many of the same discriminatory measures the Nazis would implement a century and a half later, such as banning of Jews from professions and restrictions on Marriages and education. Jews were not citizens and didn't have rights until 1812, when the Holy Roman Empire collapsed and the Jews were emancipated. Throughout the 19th Century, many Conservative Germans would demand the rescinding of emancipation of Jews, to the point that even in the last years of the German empire, Jews were barred from the upper levels of the Civil service and the Military.

But even so, all of this was better than Elsewhere. In both Czarist Russia and even the UK, Jews were under constant threat of violence, in addition to not having any rights. This actually resulted in huge Jewish Immigration to Germany, which emancipated Jews in 1812 and gave them new opportunities that they were denied elsewhere. As Antisemitic Germany was, it was better than the alternatives. Until the eve of WW1 many European Jews would flee to Germany and the nearby Austria/Hungary, so much that the young Hitler would complain about illegal Jewish immigrants in Austria.

Paradoxically, this would lead to the Nazis' version of anti-Semitism in 1933-1945. Much like Mexicans in the modern US or Various Immigrants in Modern Europe, the Nazis, Including Hitler, saw Jews as illegal aliens stealing their Jobs and opportunities, which would lead to dispossessing them followed by the Mass murder of Jews.