The Jewish Social Self-Help receives more and more applications for assistance for the reconstruction of shops.
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[6] Over time, Jews are expelled from various marketplaces and market halls. They are assigned separate and increasingly smaller sections of streets and squares for trading (restricting the type of goods they are permitted to trade for the Jews),573 until they are banned from all marketplaces and imprisoned in a separate district.
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September—after the German invasion. Captured Jews are working on a German detail under the supervision of a Wachtmeister.574 When reporting or talking to their military supervisors, they must not refer to themselves as Mensch or Mann, only Jude, because Juden sind keine Menschen.575
The Wachtmeister lightly strikes one of the working Jews with his riding crop, and asks: “Hats weh getan?”576 He says no. The happy gendarme replies with a benign smile: “Brav!”577
Seeing that the Wachtmeister is appeased, the struck Jew—a talkative type—asks him:
Ja, Herr Wachmeister, warum schlagen Sie mich eigentlich?
Nicht dich, den Rotschild schlage ich, comes the reply.
Ja, ich bin doch nicht Rotschild, the shabbily dressed Jew is surprised.
Na was willst du, ich soll nach Paris gehen?578
