Compare Why Were The Jews Ostracized And Persecuted

Why were the Jews ostracized and persecuted by the Germans and the Nazis? Why did their neighbors and friends turn against them? How did they survive and push through these difficult times? Hopefully this paper will help to clear up some if not all of these troubling questions.

The Nazis did not start with the Jews as their target, but it didn’t take long for them to be. The Nazis first form of attack on the Jews was through political standings, especially if they were leaders or members of the communist, socialist or pacifist party’s. Nazis even went as far as jailing Jews if they suspected them of being a communist, it didn’t have to be true. Sometimes if the husbands fled the country or went into hiding because of their political

standing, the wives had to deal with the torture or with the threatening from the Nazis constantly. At this point the law could not be trusted, this became a very complicated situation for many Jews and non-nazi party members because help could not be found. The law went as far as doing house searches and planting false evidence so they could accuse a Jew of treason. Eventually going places like the grocery store, post office, a restaurant was impossible for the Jews. Anybody could make a scene over anything, falsely accusing a Jew, the law would believe the Aryan. In 1935, when the Nuremburg laws were released stating that Jews were not citizens and were not allowed to marry non-jews or have sexual relations with non-jews. Economic Strangulation was another way for the Nazis to get rid of the Jews.