From that point forward, the onslaught was swift and merciless:
March 4, 1939: The Decree Regarding Employment of Jews. (Introduction of forced labor.)
April 30, 1939: Law Regarding Leases with Jews. (Exclusion of Jews from non-Jewish dwellings and establishment of Jewish districts—“ghettoization.”)
September 1, 1941: Police Decree Regarding Identification Badges for Jews. (All Jews over six years of age compelled to wear yellow arm bands with the Star of David. )
April 17, 1942: Ordinance Regarding Identification of Jewish Apartments. (Compulsory marking of Jewish apartments with the Star of David. )
April 17, 1942: Jews banned from using public transportation.
May 15, 1942: Jews banned from keeping pets.
May 29, 1942: Jews banned from using non-Jewish hairdressers.
June 19, 1942: Confiscation of electric appliances, typewriters and bicycles owned by Jews.
October 9, 1942: Jews forbidden to buy books.
July 1, 1943: Jews denied protection of courts and put under police jurisprudence.
And then the final entry in this catalog of laws:
“After 1943: No further legal material available.” Of course, laws were no longer an issue.
Long before gas was turned on in a concentration camp, a climate of hatred against Jews had been methodically and relentlessly established. The years of this systematic dehumanizing process paved the way for Kristallnacht, confiscation of property, suppression of individual liberty, and ultimately for extermination camps. Through manipulation of popular opinion by all available avenues, the architects of National Socialism set off sparks which ultimately lit the fires of the Holocaust.
When an atmosphere of hate has been established against any one religion, religious and civil liberty for all is endangered. It is thus a responsibility shared by all people of good will to refuse to allow Germany to travel that road again.![[End of Text]](img/cuby.jpg)
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