why didn't they just pretend not to be jewish?
e.g.
>"Entschuldigung sie sind jewish?"
>"No sir, I am German like you"
>>291306
Kind of hard to un-circumcise yourself.
>>291306
Probably because the nazis checked all your relatives and shit, which let them determine if you were jewish or not
>>291306
Germans and Dutch (like modern day Americans) recorded religion in the civil registry.
>>291306
I'm sure the majority did. Jews don't seek out martyrdom like Christians or Muslims, so I imagine most of them said they're Christian Germans, but a lot of the time, the Nazis would find out through checking your family records and ancestry anyway.
>>291306
Pretty sure the Germans thought of that
>>291306
>"Entschuldigung sie sind jewish?"
>"No sir, I am German like you"
They did. Also they were German.
>>291306
Because the germans investigated your ancestry and then forced you to add Israel to your name if you were a jew.
So if you name was David Schwartz (and that somehow wasn't a dead giveaway) your new name was David Schwartz Israel.
>>291331
this times 6 million
>>291522
It's a pretty slow process, like a couple years at least.
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>>291306
Because even to this day in Germany, you belong to a registered religious community by birth. These records are maintained by the government and a portion of your income goes to support that community.
After they took power in 1933, the Nazis had access to all of these records.
>>292241
>a portion of your income goes to support that community.
only if you are christian.
germany is one of the few secular countries in the west to have state-sponsored religion.
