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To: null and void

After studying everything I could get on German live during that time period, yes the National Socialists and Hitler were o.k. up until they began rounding up Jews. The Jews that tried to warn their fellow Jews were ridiculed as crackpots and ignored. The Jews were not the first the National Socialists went after. They initially went after those that publicly disagreed with and opposed them. These included Communists, labor unions members, and members of the Lutheran Church. They did not make an organized effort to go after the Jews until they[National Socialists] consolidated their power. They opened with demonizing of them [Jews] by the media, which was by that time the propaganda arm of the National Socialists Party, as the main media here is the propaganda arm of the Democrat Party. Next, they enacted laws to strip them of their rights as German Citizens. It was a process that took several years to complete.


70 posted on 01/27/2014 5:50:48 AM PST by sport
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To: sport

A number of Jews in the beginning thought they were safe, because Hitler was only going to go after “the bad Jews.” And in reality they wouldn’t be all that worse off under Hitler than in most parts of Europe at the time, Jews were pretty much second-class citizens throughout the continent at the time. But yes, Kristallnacht was indeed the turning point.


79 posted on 01/27/2014 9:02:41 AM PST by dfwgator
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