Political suppression of a group of people begins by passing laws that they must register and obtain an identify card. Then sometime later, they just ask everyone with a certain name or place of...
I believe the numbers were used to depersonalize these unfortunate prisoners. Hitler wanted to think we Jews were sub-human. Little by little these people were disinfranchised. Even their citizenship...
The Nazis would make the Jews wear the Star of David. They also had them file papers and be recorded.
Because the Jews maintained their traditions, they were easily identified, but the task of...
Some Nazis did a little homework ... In the Middle Ages the Catholic Church had ordered the civil authorities to make Jews to wear a clear, identifying badge on their outermost clothing. The most...