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This 5 page paper discusses the similarities and differences between Jews in Eastern Europe and Blacks in America during the 1930s. Bibliography lists 6 sources.
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groups in the 1930s. Discussion There are points of difference as well as similarities-and a strong degree of cooperation-between Jews in Eastern Europe and African Americans in the U.S. in
the 1930s. Well take a look at three aspects of life for these groups: persecution; race relations; and migration/cooperation. We turn first to persecution. First point: Persecution; in Europe and
the U.S.: Perhaps nothing in human history has been so uniquely barbaric as the systematic extermination of European Jews by the Nazis. The destruction of the Jews in Europe, according
to Holocaust scholar Raul Hilberg, followed a pattern that comprised four separate stages (Sowards). The first stage was the "identification of Jews, often on the basis of racial laws which
defined peoples ethnicity by blood and descent"; the second was the "expropriation of Jewish property" (Sowards). At times, certain "professional jobs" were made off-limits to Jews, which meant that they
earned much less money, and could not escape from the horror that was coming (Sowards). The third step was the "physical concentration of these identified Jews in ghettos or camps"
where they were cut off from the general population (Sowards). This isolation effectively put them "out of sight, out of mind" of ordinary, non-Jewish citizens who might have protested at
their treatment (Sowards). The last step of course was their mass murder (Sowards). Sowards notes that in the Balkans, his area of expertise, Jews were already an identifiable population segment
in the 1930s; furthermore, there was already legislation in place, either long-standing or "recently passed to satisfy local fascists or Nazi German diplomats" that took Jews property from them (Sowards).
By the time the danger was clear, many Jews were too poor to escape what was coming (Sowards). In Eastern Europe, social pressures had already concentrated Jews in ghettos in
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