THE INFLUENCE OF SUDDEN OPPRESSION ON A RACIAL MINORITY.

The article examines the influence of sudden oppression on a racial minority. In the article, the author focuses the discussion around the German Jewry group. While other groups have grown up as racial minorities and are thus more or less adjusted to their situation, this group has been more or less integrated and assimilated, and has later become the object of sudden oppression. German Jewry can be regarded as a single group since 1933 in so far as its members were subjected to similar experiences after the onset of discrimination. The members of this group were mostly recruited from families, which had been assimilated for at least two or three generations. Their attitude toward the other Jewish groups was uninterested or neutral. They often exaggerated or overemphasized their patriotism and loyalty to Germany, both traits probably indicating a certain remainder of insecurity concerning their position and a desire to stress the fact of their assimilation. The first principal effect of the beginning of discrimination of the group was economic oppression.