Anger & Humiliation/ Voices in the Dark

Response:

2 points of the Nazi Party Program that I find specifically unfair are:

*1* German blood as a requirement for German citizenship. No Jew can be a member of the nation.

I find this unfair because, firstly, if someone of different ethnicity came forward to ask permission to become a German citizen, he should be allowed to do so. An example includes Adolf Hitler, who was an Austrian citizen and was granted German citizenship. He should be able to sympathize with the victims of this law, as where would he be if he wasn't granted German citizenship? Secondly, the intolerance demonstrated towards Jews in this law is very cruel. It shows a very party with biased thinking against the Jews.

*2* The state insures that every citizen live decently and earn his livelihood. If it is impossible to provide food for the whole population, then aliens must be expelled.

It is perfectly normal for every citizen to have rights to a decent life and earned livelihood, but the fact that when food is scarce their solution is to throw out the aliens/foreigners is simply unfair, and prejudiced. The foreigners have every right to be there as the citizens by blood. They made their life there and because food is scarce they have to be kicked out. It is extremely unfair and I think that the government should make sure that there is enough food to sustain the country and that they shouldn't resort to kicking out people.

If you had been on the train, do you think you would have said or done anything? Have you or someone you know ever had a similar experience?

If I were on the train, I would've defended the Jew. I wouldn't have resorted to physical harm, and would have burst out and reprimanded the people for blaming every single one of their pity problems on the Jews (even though it wasn't my place to do so). Though I would cross the line at some point, when I could tell my life was threatened, because if I defended a life and in the end my words irritated the men more, we could both end up dead. I could instead escort the man to the next station as the conflict escalated. There was also the fact that many people at that time were killed for being a Jew, defending a Jew or speaking out against Hitler. I'd do this because the Germans had been through a lot during World War I, and needed an outlet for their frustration and anger. So when the Jews came up, they became agitated. Agitated, angry and bitter men are harder to reason with, because as I mentioned before, they had reasons to be angry. I've experienced being in places where people thought unethically or were hostile to one another, and I have experienced seeing a public display of anger, both physically and through dispute. Both were unpleasant and nobody spoke out, I think what all these situations need is someone who would back up the victim and be ready to defend the victim. This can go a long way, because it saves lives.