The Nuremberg Laws In Germany

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Society is infected. Discrimination lurks within every one of us, and is responsible for the loss of many lives both literally and metaphorically. One hates because another is different. We are all different. A mutual contempt for one another is all we exhibit. Which may be the disease, prejudice or population? Some discriminate without even knowing by using slang and slurs without thought. In 1935, a massive social movement redefined what it meant to discriminate, and it was by no means accidental. At a rally in Nuremberg, Germany, the Nazi Regime introduced a set of legislative regulations poised against the Jewish people, suitably named The Nuremberg Laws. The Nuremberg Laws made the single greatest contribution to modern mass-discrimination …show more content…
“For a brief period after Nuremberg, in the weeks before and during the 1936 Olympic Games held in Berlin, the Nazi regime actually moderated its anti-Jewish attacks and even removed some of the signs saying "Jews Unwelcome" from public places. Hitler did not want international criticism of his government to result in the transfer of the Games to another country. Such a loss would have been a serious blow to German prestige.” (“The Nuremberg Race Laws”, par. 3)
Racially regulatory signs were cast down, and Jews were given a temporary break from their exclusion. Jews were not, however, permitted to compete in the games. It is evident that Germany knew that what it was doing would be viewed critically by the international community.

Anti-Semitism was not new. There existed a forty year conspiracy leading up to the Holocaust, and it sounds just as unreasonable as those three hour documentaries that clutter
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The International Jew, the book that included this series, was translated into at least 16 languages. Both Adolf Hitler and Joseph Goebbels, later the Nazi Minister of Propaganda, praised Ford and The International Jew.”
(“Protocols of the Elders of Zion”, par. 7)
Celebrities, entrepreneurs, government officials, world leaders, and citizens were all fooled by this ‘fake news’. The Jewish people were the enemy. This sort of imaginative data is still being created today, but it looks different. Scapegoatism targets Muslims, Mexicans, and other Middle Easterners in recent history, which means events past are likely to repeat. Muslim screenings, travel bans, and bigotry resemble the 1935 Nuremberg Laws, while alt-right websites like Breitbart approximate the original Jewish