Word: bernsteins
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Situating the atrocities in a broader historical contexts, Bernstein traced the implementation of anti-Semitic laws established by the Nazis, beginning with the so-called "Law for Restoration of the Public Service," which expelled all Jews that worked for the German state...
...Nazis were brilliant with euphemism," Bernstein said...
...Bernstein suggested that contemporary Americans might be able to relate more easily to educated, urbane citizens struck down by government, legislation, and bystanders in Kristallnacht than to the phantasmagorical skeletons of Auschwitz...
Gradually, the restrictions escalated into the renowned Nuremberg Laws—legislation that deprived Jews of German citizenship and the attendant voting rights, Bernstein said...
...that is necessary for the triumph of evil is that good men do nothing," Bernstein said, invoking a quote from Edmund Burke...