Legal exclusion publicly approved was a precondition for the Final Solution.
Evidence
The ‘Final Solution’ would not have been possible without the progressive steps to exclude the Jews from German society which took place in full view of the public, in their legal form met with widespread approval, and resulted in the depersonalization and debasement of the figure of the Jew. — Zygmunt Bauman, Modernity and the Holocaust, 532
Categorization
- QUESTION: How does legal-form exclusion recruit popular approval that open violence cannot? This bears directly on how modern bureaucratic legalism enables mass exclusion in other cases.
- XREF: connects to: Legal exclusion of both sides removed contentious issues from practical politics
Related
- Germans rejected violent assaults yet approved legal exclusion of Jews. (similarity 0.81)