LIFE FOR THE JEWS BEFORE THE HOLOCAUST
Life for the Jewish community before the Holocaust was somewhat lavished. Most Jews were business owners and for its majority they lived above their businesses. Jews after World War I searched to build a life that would secure them financially. They were emancipated politically, but social discrimination remained common practice. Although they were barred from government, participation in the economy was …show more content…
Even Christian denounced Jew-baiting as a disgrace to the German nation conceded that “one has rightly begun to speak of Jews and Germans instead of Jews and Christians.” Few Jews realized that their reliance on the readiness of the authorities to apply the law would be of little help if the Nazis came to power. Many of the Jews that were considered German-born and German citizens believed they would become targets of the Nazis if a problem was to come about. The Jewish Question which is a wide-ranging debate of European society pertaining to the appropriate status and treatment of Jews in society felt they had nothing to worry about. In their negotiations with Hitler, he had not mentioned that matter at