The Nuremberg Laws had a crippling economic and social impact on the Jewish community. Persons convicted of violating the marriage laws were imprisoned, and (subsequent to 8 March 1938) upon completing their sentences were re-arrested by the Gestapo and sent to Nazi concentration camps. Non-Jews gradually stopped socialising with Jews or shopping in Jewish-owned stores, many of which closed due to lack of customers. As Jews were no longer permitted to work in the civil service or government-regulated professions such as medicine and education, many middle class business owners and professionals were forced to take menial employment. Emigration was problematic, as Jews were required to remit up to 90 per cent of their wealth as a tax upon leaving the country. By 1938 it was almost impossible for potential Jewish emigrants to find a country willing to take them. Mass deportation schemes such as the Madagascar Plan proved to be impossible for the Nazis to carry out, and starting in mid-1941, the German government started mass exterminations of the Jews of Europe.
You miss understood what I said. That’s why I posted hard facts. As you can see there was a real threat.
Oh, my apologies, I see now. Although, it’s worth mentioning that people under real threat can become paranoid, imagining/speculating that innocent things are also part of the conspiracy against them.
Cheers.
fixed it for ya.
speaking of threat…
http://www.cnn.com/2017/05/16/us/ice-stewart-detention-center-death/index.html
he is the seventh person to die in ICE custody this year.
maybe none of this affects you. only you could say.
here’s to hoping historical context can come from the letter rob posted. still, even without that, it rings so true to the present moment – it’s more than worth posting about.
Speaking of immigration agents:
As we can see by the level of confusion and apologies here it’s not a good idea to just present historical artifacts without context.
Next time with context, please.
i think the only way forward is for dhs to be re-re-organized, and for ice to be disbanded.
most undocumented people aren’t even committing a crime by being here. it’s a freaking civil violation, not a criminal one.
tried and true racism and nothing more.
Who was, BTW, 16 years old, if it was the same person buried in Köln-Süd as linked by Rob.
But I agree that more context would have been interesting. And writing a short note why Rob (and Shaughnessy) found it interesting enough to post it.
The translated version of the letter mentions that “People here keep speculating about everything and are becoming suspicious of each other.” That can fairly be interpreted as describing a general atmosphere of paranoia, what with everyone in the country playing a game of “Spot the Jew” with everyone else (including gentiles worried they might be falsely tagged). The Nuremberg Laws you mention* obviously contributed to this atmosphere of general paranoia, as such laws usually do.
[* which I and many others here including Beschizza are aware of – this is not a newspaper that must assume the audience has only a middle school education]
No, too articulate. That graf is more than 140 characters and sounds like it was written by someone older than 13.
The content, however, is pretty close.
These are touchy subjects.
Speaking of Paranoia in this context gives the wrong impression.
Excuse my delicate idiosyncrasies.
I have no problem with idiosyncrasies or acknowledging the sensitivity of the subject, but by its definition paranoia is not really a phobia:
“Often” != “Always”.
Thank you, that book looks great, and of course, timely.
Its really just a post of a thing, not an article about a thing. Even if it were an article with context that wouldn’t change the tone of the conversation most likely. These days even if one of the editors of BoingBoing were to post something completely lovely and innocent, the comments would devolve into the evils of the current President of the United States. Its some new version of Godwin’s Law.
Well it was less than half a wold away, just over half a century ago.
Hardly the Pleistocene.
OH I see. Eh, yes you are right if you go with the dictionary definition, paranoia would be the wrong word. However it is also used to describe that same action or feeling when there IS cause for it. Just like how people love to use “decimate” when they mean something is destroyed, when decimate means to just kill/destroy 10% of something. Or now when people say “literally” when they mean “figuratively”.
I have no doubt @beschizza didn’t mean to imply that the person’s feeling of unease were unwarranted.
Right?
And it’s not like the Nazis didn’t find a lot to admire and emulate in the U.S. treatment of its own despised minorities.
Actually, the similarities are there. The spelling errors, the populist rhetoric, and using a typewriter are what I would have expected from an Arsch mit Ohren of the time. It reads like I would expect from some Trump supporter in Kansas who gets his news exclusively from Fox, doesn’t even read newspapers, and online trusts Breitbart more than any other source.
I love the happy mutants. I’m here for 10 years. I’m not complaining because I want to complain. 
or someone trying to convince the censors they are a Trump supporter, the monsters.
