Between Dignity and Despair: Jewish Life in Nazi Germany Book

I started by wanting to know how Germany had gone from a country where Jews were basically accepted, despite the occasional, rough patch, more than most any other place in Europe, to a charnel house. What I wound up learning about was how people turn on their neighbors with remarkable alacrity given a mixture of economic uncertainty and nationalist discourse. Little by little, rights are stripped away. Little by little, discrimination becomes more socially acceptable. As those rights are stripped away, it becomes more practically difficult for the majority population to engage with the minority, socially, commercially, or otherwise, and so the majority decides it's easier to keep their heads down, even if they don't have personal beef with the minority. As that discrimination becomes more socially acceptable, the social pressure to discriminate as well from other members of the majority increases, and again, the majority decides it's easier to keep their heads down. And when stories about death camps in the east come... those who don't know definitely do know that it's better for them not to know.

This was Germany in the 1930s. It is Western Myanmar and Gaza and Yemen today. Kashmir isn't looking good right now, either. It might happen to you soon, in your country. You might be the majority. You might be the minority. Take heed, motherfuckers.