Persecution of Jews

This article really brought light to the fact that the Jewish people in Germany really had it bad for a long time. Sometimes when people think of the Holocaust they believe that it all happened in one fellow swoop and all the sudden all the Jews were in concentration camp. As awful as that is, this story brings light to the situation that makes it all that much worse. The Jews all the way back to the early 1930’s were persecuted beyond belief. At first they took away the basic things that you and I take for granted, such as political speech, being able to seek out an education, etc. Slowly but surely more and more things were taken away. Jews were basically taken out of the economy and forced to sell all their goods at very low prices. As time progressed they were labeled and forced to put J’s on their passports. Eventually physical violence was used against the Jews and they were basically told they needed to leave Germany immediately. This was not as easy as one may think though, no countries wanted to accept the exiled Jews and they were stuck between a rock and a hard place. I can’t even imagine being told by your own country that you can’t live there any more and they’ve taken all of your money and you have no where to go and no one to turn to because all of your friends and family are in the same predicament.