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To: ProtectOurFreedom

Thing about this is, the Nazis didn’t put all the restrictions in at once, but rather a little bit at a time. First Jews lost jobs in a few occupations. Then they weren’t allowed on public transportation (later, of course, they were allowed to ride in cattle cars). Then they were forbidden private cars. Then came bicycles. By the time the stars were required it was very difficult for them to escape.

I wonder if that will be the approach here.


30 posted on 11/13/2020 8:27:05 AM PST by hanamizu
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To: hanamizu

It already is.


31 posted on 11/13/2020 8:29:14 AM PST by Skywise
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To: hanamizu
You are exactly right, but it increased astonishingly quickly from the first anti-Jewish laws in 1933 to the death camps. The whole Holocaust took less than FIVE YEARS to move to mass extermination. That's about the term of a US President.

Jews, who numbered about 525,000 in Germany (less than one percent of the total population in 1933) were the principal target of Nazi hatred. The Nazis identified Jews as a race and defined this race as “inferior.” They also spewed hate-mongering propaganda that unfairly blamed Jews for Germany’s economic depression and the country’s defeat in World War I.

1933 - 1934: The first wave of Nazi antisemitic legislation focused on limiting the participation of Jews in German public life. Coincidentally, the first concentration camp at Dachau was established on March 20, 1933 ten miles northwest of Munich. It was created to hold political prisoners, many of whom were Social Democrats and German Communists, the latter group having been blamed for the February 27 fire at the German parliament building, the Reichstag.

1934 (June): Hitler decided it was time to rid the Nazi Party of those who were threatening his rise to power. In an event that became known as the Night of the Long Knives, Hitler used the growing SS to take out key members of the SA (known as the “Storm Troopers”) and others he viewed as being problematic to his growing influence. Several hundred men were imprisoned or killed, with the latter being the more common fate.

1935 (Sept): Nazi leaders announced the “Nuremberg Laws” which institutionalized many of the racial theories prevalent in Nazi ideology.

1937 - 1938: Nazi legislation increased the segregation of Jews from their fellow Germans, ultimately requiring Jews to identify themselves in ways that would permanently separate them from the rest of the population. Following the Kristallnacht pogrom (November 9–10, 1938), Nazi leaders stepped up "Aryanization" efforts and enforced measures that succeeded increasingly in physically isolating and segregating Jews from their fellow Germans.

1945 (April): Dachau was liberated by the United States 7th Army Infantry Unit. At the time of liberation, there were approximately 27,400 prisoners who remained alive in the main camp. In total, over 188,000 prisoners had passed through Dachau and its sub-camps. An estimated 50,000 of those prisoners died while imprisoned in Dachau.

43 posted on 11/13/2020 9:15:48 AM PST by ProtectOurFreedom ("Inside Every Progressive Is A Totalitarian Screaming To Get Out" -- David Horowitz)
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