The Crime of My Very Existence
By: Michael Berkowitz
in 1946 a survivor of the Warsaw ghetto uprising asked, “Why did the Jews die such strange and horrific deaths?” and “What were they guilty of in the eyes of the world?” Vital strains of Nazism were based on the idea that Jews deserved their fate under Hitler because they were “criminals.” “Judentum,” Jewry and Judaism, proclaimed a prominent Nazi billboard, “ist Verbrechertum” is criminality. This libel, directed at Jews as individuals as well as at a mythically unified, archconspiratorial entity, was a protean weapon in the Nazi arsenal. It was the stuff of Nazi patter, platitudes, and policy. The following study details this dimension of the persecution of the Jews and analyzes its part in stimulating and rationalizing gratuitous violence and murder. The accusation that Jews were criminals shaped how the Nazis and their collaborators, and post Second World War sympathizers with the Nazi regime, endeavored to justify the Jews’ stigmatization and attempted annihilation. [download]
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