Since the olden times, man has always made an effort to prove himself different from his fellow men and has done cruelty on one another on the same pretext. The rise of the Nazi rule led by the fascist leader Adolf Hitler was one of the worst discrimination hostilities the world had ever seen. The Nazi regime blamed the Jews for the loss of Germany in the First World War.
Since this ideology was endorsed, Jews faced many repercussions on the social, economic and cultural front. Socially they were movements and activities were being conducted where Jews had started to be abandoned. Public places like parks and other such situates had boards having anti Jew sentiments .Socially they were so proscribed that a Jewish child was even denied a right for basic education.
The following will shed light on the amount of social cruelty the Jews had to put up in Nazi Germany: ‘Laws were brought up to ban Jewish-Aryan marriages and there were forced centers opened up to persuade an intermarriage couple to separate’. (Robert Gellately & Nathan Stoltzfus, “Social Outsiders in Nazi Germany”. Pg.123. Retrieved on November 4, 2008. Princeton University Press, 2001)
On an economic front there was complete devastation for the Jews as laws were made so scrupulous that any allegation was enough for a Jew to lose his job or his permit for his business. Apart from the laws there was an obvious boycott of Jewish shops which led many to become paupers. All this misdoings were happening, because apart from considering Jews as traitors they were considered to be culturally inferior.
The Nazi Germans considered themselves of superior race and termed themselves as pure blood or Aryan bloodline. The textbooks in German schools were changed and special lessons were given on how Jews were culturally inferior to them and how they should be considered as a low form of life. The social, economic and cultural restrictions that were laid against the Jews were of horrendous nature and it gave them a clear message of how much unwanted they were in Nazi Germany.
Reference
- Robert Gellately & Nathan Stoltzfus, “Social Outsiders in Nazi Germany”. Princeton University Press, 2001
