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Germany was starting to get bad press all over the world because of the way it was treating the Jews. The Germans, in their way of thinking, said: "It’s all because of the Jewish lobby, overseas."
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Boycott of Jewish Stores, April 1933 |
So they thought: " We’re going to hit them where it hurts – to quiet them down. We’re going to hit them in their pocketbook." They declared a boycott against all Jewish businesses.
They placed their S.A.’s, their bully-boy storm troopers, in front of the Jewish businesses all over Germany for a one-day boycott. If anyone tried to go in to a Jewish business or store, he was subject to a beating or re-education in a camp.
Hitler took the sludge off the streets and gave them a stick and a salute and a brown shirt and a badge. That was the S.A. In his country of 65 million people, he had over 400,000 of these people.
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Poster With Gruesome Nazi Song |
They had a song, called "Horst Wessel." One of the verses went: "When Jewish blood spurts from the knife, things will go well again." Russia used the same techniques during the Communist revolution. The Communists were successful in part because they mobilized the street forces. In Germany, it was the Right Wing. That was a key to Hitler’s original success.
Finally, in 1935, anti-Semitism became legal. It became the state law. The Nuremberg Laws went into effect. There were many of them, but two main ones were:
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Graffitti "Warning" German Customers, 1933 |
The pure-blood law, that no Germans could marry those of non-German blood. There were no intimate relations allowed, specifically no marriage allowed with Jews. Offenders were humiliated.
The revoking of citizenship from any non-Germans. That meant that if someone went into a Jewish business and walked out with some goods, or someone went into a Jewish house and took away their stove, there was no recourse in courts.
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Book Burning at Berlin's Opera Square, 1933 |
Case in point: A Jew had been working for a German for years, doing a good job as a manager. The German got on the bandwagon of the Nazis and wanted to fire this Jew, but the Jew had a contract, and was doing a good job. So the case went to court. The result:
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Jewish Lawyer Carrying Self-Insulting Sign |
The court invoked a clause in the Jew's contract which said that the contract would be terminated if the man became incapacitated due to illness. The court ruled that his racial characteristics of being a Jew were considered the same as illness and therefore his contract was not valid.
(49) Connee , March 26, 2007
It's hard to believe these things have happened
It's just so shocking that people were treated this way for being jewish. I cry over things that have happened to them. I also read the diary of anne frank. It was very suprising to see the world falling apart and so many joys and tears were brought into this one diary. If I were the jury I would just say one sentence"These so called people killed innocent human beings for their amusement I say death no questions" I would go to the gallos to see these people get killed or I would be the hangman in charge of the kiling. In my book murderers should'nt wait 10 years to die I would say" Nazis you guys are going to burn in hell in 2 minutes.
(48) ashley , February 14, 2007
I know about the holocaust for a long time. Now I have to a poject and I choose the holocaust and I never knew all of the detail of it. As I am reaching it it is really sad that this happened and I can't believe that someone can do this to anyone.
(47) Mustapha , January 23, 2007
I wish it didn't happen.
When I was still very young, I used to go with my father to the cinema from time to time .My father worked with a french company that produced wine in Casablanca. He was offered extra money for his hard work .Now he's retired and regreted those days when he worked with Mr Boufar as he pronounced it.Mr Boufar(a jew) prefered my father to the rest of the workers.It was ,then, mitual.My father as I said before found money and time to take my brother and I to the movies.We saw different types of films among them War films.I still remember the scenes where people were gathered together and for some reasons,which I didn't know at that time,were put on dirty wagons and sent to unknown directions.And film after film, I started to wonder why all those scenes came back,until I saw children and old people urged into rooms only to realize later that they were stifling for air ,but it was Gas what they were breathing.I wept for the first time in a cinema.I was fascinated and happy to see US Army killing the SS and germen army.I didn't know anything about those victims except that they were Humans ,and that was enough for me to weep,and I'm sure there were many people like me who wept and were disguised when they saw what I saw:Soldiers killing each other,and worse than that soldiers killing other people because they were jews.
I hope this would help people think deeply.
(46) Jean , October 13, 2006
Holger, you cannot equate the shoah with
What is happening the ME. Or, rather, yes you can. In the ME, we have the active remnants of the National Socialists-- known as the Ba'ath Party. Also Hamas. Also Hezbollah. Entire societies who want Jews, the entire Jewish people, dead. Gone.
Let refugees return, you say. But do you know that over 800,000 ME Jews were driven out of their communities in 1948? Do you know that, like in Germany, they were stripped of all assets and belongings? Where was the place they could go? The newborn, tiny State of Israel, fighting for its existence, still found time and compassion to absorb these relatives. The arabs did nothing for their displaced relatives. In fact, they made it impossible for these their relatives and fellow muslims to have a meaningful existence.
So, before you call for the right of return and the 'oppression' of the arabs of the territories, ask yourself-- will Jews obtain equal treatment of right of return? Will their assets and homes be restored?
No. Sadly, the arabs of the territories have had the opportunity to have their own state since 1948. Time and again they have demonstrated that any wish for a state of their own comes second to killing Jews.
I won't even go into the status of remnant Jewish communities in the ME. How dozens of Iranian Jews have been 'disappeared' by the Iranian secret police.
You cannot wash away your nation's past by pointing to the present, or attempting to compare the wholesale murder of millions with a nation under attack by the same hatred that produced the Shoah.
(45) Brij , August 20, 2006
How a non-european Looks at Holocaust
We in India are not much aware about real causes and effects of Holocaust. Only a small portion of population knows about the atrocities faced by Jews. This situation previals in other negibhouring countries also. Though, this part of the world comprises substantial population of the world. In order to enure non-reoccurence of such henious crime against humanity it is imperative to make each person on this planet knowledgable about the holocaust. I would request your society to embark upon a program, through Government agencies, to make certain that in school text books chapters are included giving vivid details of the holocaust. A united world opinion against hatered is must. Holocaust is indeed a blot on European conscience which can not be done away. Only perpetrator of evil is not guilty, person who does not stop it is also culpable, since his silence encourages doer to carry out crime with more intensity.