The following statement was taken from a contemporary account of Germany in 1939
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Question
The following statement was taken from a contemporary account of Germany in 1939:
"Though the Fuhrer's anti-Semitic program furnished the National Socialist party in the first instances with a nucleus and a rallying-cry, it was swept into office by two things with which the "Jewish Problem" did not have the slightest connection. On the one side was economic distress and the revulsion against Versailles: on the other, chicanery and intrigue...Hitler and his party promised the unhappy Germans a new heaven and a new earth, coupled with the persecution of the Jews. Unfortunately a new heaven and earth cannot be manufactured to order. But a persecution of the Jews can..."
How do you interpret this contemporary account of the persecution of people who are Jewish? Elaborate.
Explanation / Answer
Hitler came in power in1933, the violence and atrocities against Jews reached its height. Under the laws of Nuremberg , the Jews forced out of jobs from the newspapers and Civil Service . Jews were compelled to capture menial jobs as the result of the expulsion. They had been rated as the citizens of second-class citizens as well as characterized as per to their religious affiliation of grandparents’ . Jewish shops had been boycotted, and were banned from the society. The Jews were banned from places of public , theater, schools, cinema and certain cities. They had been forced to flee from Germany. Jews became the subject of the hatred of Nazi . The Jews had been blamed for depression in economy which Germany faced because of result of the political turmoil at the time. they were also blamed for defeat of Germany in the World War I. The boycott of Jews , had affected the Jewish community economically and socially. The Jews were subjected and marginalized to violent and atrocities attacks. The Jews had been stripped off all the rights and had even murdered.