In the Footsteps of Cottbus Jews

Discrimination

In the first year of the Nazi government, 315 laws were passed that restricted the rights of Jews. In the years that followed, the systematic discrimination and persecution of the Jews took on a larger scale. In 1935, the "Nuremberg Race Laws" were enacted. This had far-reaching consequences. Jews for example were deprived of the right to vote, Jewish officials were dismissed, marriages between Jews and non-Jews were forbidden. What had been taken for granted by them before 1933, like the visit of swimming pools, the use of public transport or the disposal of their garbage, was then taken away from the Jews.

As students in Cottbus, Robert Exiner and Joachim Boin witnessed the situation for Jews in Nazi Germany getting worse and worse. In their interviews, they describe how they experienced this at the time.


How would you describe the situation of the two eyewitnesses in five words?

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