In 1933, the Nazis came to power and the more systematic persecution of the Jews followed quickly. Laws were enacted which excluded Jewish children from higher education in public schools.
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The Nazi period could have happened only in Germany because the German education of obedience to any law and order was the main problem.
Jewish persecution is a historical memory of the present generation and people fear it in the present day, and that's why those references are so much more powerful. I just understand that better now.
The reason the Jews hate Nazis is primarily because they didn't come up with the idea first.
There was one public school for boys, and one for girls, but Jewish children were admitted in limited numbers - only ten to a hundred; and even the lucky ones had their troubles.
You can easily see why the experience of Jews would be helpful if you're looking to get action on religious persecution.
I was a student in Germany when Hitler came to power.
The kids growing up in the apartheid era were so restricted and angry - if they spoke out against it, they were thrown in jail.
I think it was when I was nineteen, by that time the Jewish laws were already in force and the split was beginning to come about which isolated the Jewish culture.
In 1939, Germany established gun control. From 1939 to 1945, six million Jews and seven million others unable to defend themselves were exterminated.
Under Hitler it was the entrepreneurial and professional classes who were the first victims of Nazi boycotts and exclusion. Today it is Israel, the most powerful symbol of Jewish national resurgence in two millennia.
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