{"id":1271,"date":"2015-05-03T01:58:25","date_gmt":"2015-05-03T01:58:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/social.rollins.edu\/wpsites\/letters\/?p=1271"},"modified":"2019-10-29T12:58:40","modified_gmt":"2019-10-29T12:58:40","slug":"jewish-community-in-berlin","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.rollins.edu\/letters\/2015\/05\/03\/jewish-community-in-berlin\/","title":{"rendered":"Jewish community in Berlin"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Nazi system withered one of the most vibrant Jewish communities in Europe. It was mentioned that it was not the constant depredations and humiliations of the authorities, but the lack of information on what happened to those who were taken away was what deeply worried the evacuees. The Nazi regime managed to break this group of people to their most instinctive level: They had little concern for material possession but they cared only about survival at that point.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.rollins.edu\/letters\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/1-244x300.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-17894 size-medium\" src=\"http:\/\/blogs.rollins.edu\/letters\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/1-244x300-244x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"244\" height=\"300\" \/><\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.rollins.edu\/letters\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/11-223x300.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-17895 size-medium\" src=\"http:\/\/blogs.rollins.edu\/letters\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/11-223x300-223x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"223\" height=\"300\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Synagoge Levetzowstra\u00dfe in Berlin in 1914 and 1951<\/p>\n<p>How much did Berliners know about the Holocaust? That is a vital question and I am sure one that troubles the Germans to this day. There were rumors about the atrocities that took place but these were dismissed as anti-German propaganda fabricated by the enemies.\u00a0 It was seen as implausible that the land of Freud, Jung, and Einstein would cold-bloodedly execute their Jewish population in ditches in the woods \u2013 as what happened in the forest of Rumbula in November, 1941. Many Berliners \u2013 Aryans and Jews &#8211; were \u2018obliged\u2019 to believe the original story that they were simply \u2018reallocated\u2019 to camps and ghettos in the east. The fact that Germany was under a fascist regime also strongly inclined many to acquiesce to the official story.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Nazi system withered one of the most vibrant Jewish communities in Europe. It was mentioned that it was not the constant depredations and humiliations of the authorities, but the lack of information on what happened to those who were taken away was what deeply worried the evacuees. The Nazi regime managed to break this&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":358,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[367],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1271","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-field-studies"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.rollins.edu\/letters\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1271","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.rollins.edu\/letters\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.rollins.edu\/letters\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.rollins.edu\/letters\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/358"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.rollins.edu\/letters\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1271"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.rollins.edu\/letters\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1271\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":17897,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.rollins.edu\/letters\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1271\/revisions\/17897"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.rollins.edu\/letters\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1271"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.rollins.edu\/letters\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1271"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.rollins.edu\/letters\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1271"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}