Comment by somenameforme
20 days ago
This is both technically and logically incorrect. From a technical point of view - it's just wrong. Jews were persecuted and encouraged to leave, yet never formally expelled from Germany. And as the Nazis moved towards genocide, they moved in the other direction and made it impossible for Jews to leave the country.
But from a logical point of view, it also fails, even in a parallel reality where you were right. Countries are generally deemed to have the right to kill their citizens for major violations of the law, in the pursuit of justice. But that does not mean a country has the right to just start killing their citizens on a whim. And similarly, every single country has the right to expel people who enter their country illegally or remain beyond the terms of a granted temporary stay. This does not mean a country has the right the randomly start expelling their own citizens, en masse, for no normal reason.
Your core assumptions are incorrect. Jews were not considered German Reich citizens. [0]
Those who do not learn history are doomed to repeat it.
[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nuremberg_Laws#Classifications...
Your link does not conflict with anything I said. Jews were never formally expelled from Germany. You might note the page you link even lays out various rights for Jews living within Germany. In any case, this would not change the issue even had they been expelled, for reasons already mentioned.
Those who do not read their links are doomed to misrepresent them.
You had a whole long paragraph about how it's all totally different this time because the Jews were German citizens.
Except they were not and your whole point was wrong.
There are none so blind as those who will not see.
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