Denial of Citizenship – Could it happen Here?

Constitution and Law, Jews, Social Behavior 1 Minute

 

 I certainly hope not!
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WASHINGTON (AP) — The laws signed by Adolf Hitler taking away the citizenship of German Jews before the Holocaust were placed on rare public display Wednesday at the National Archives.The Nuremberg Laws were turned over to the archives in August by The Huntington, a museum complex near Los Angeles where they were quietly deposited by Gen. George Patton at the end of World War II. The papers will be on display in a separate gallery from the U.S. Constitution and Declaration of Independence through Oct. 18.

Still, Nazi actions against the Jews began before the laws were signed in 1935 with earlier policies barring Jews from certain jobs and occupations.

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Many German Jewish families saw the handwriting on the wall and left Germany just as fast as they could. The new CEO of Hewlett-Packard Company is the child of a family that raced to the Russian Chinese frontier to escape.  As a child in Philadelphia I remember neighbors who had left Germany before the Holocaust.  I know a Jewish man who was born in China because his family saw the writing on the wall.

 

If Jews or any other group is denied their citizenship in the United States we should recall that horror.  We all must be vigilant.

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