Allie Gregory - Blog #7

          On September 15, 1935, the Nazis enacted the Nuremburg laws, which deprived German Jews their rights of citizenship. This was obviously not a good thing. It had serious negative effects on the Jewish community, both social and economic. People were imprisoned for marrying Jews, and when the Jews finished their sentence they were sent to concentration camps. Non-Jews stopped shopping in Jewish-owned stores and much social interaction between the two groups halted. Jews were denied all government-regulated jobs, such as those in the fields of medicine and education. 
          Four years before the start of World War II, this event was a serious stepping stone. It was the beginning of Jewish isolation and the start of a path that would prove to be catastrophic. Six million Jews died in WWII, a fact in itself which is inherently devastating, and this was a major event leading up to such terrible results. I certainly resent these laws having been placed. They embody a part of human history and essentially a piece of humanity which I would rather pretend didn't exist. It's horrifying to think that we can single out a group of people and hate them the way people hated Jews, ostracize them the way the Jewish people were ostracized.