Berlin Memorial Activity
1.) What did you learn? I learned a lot about all the different types of laws Nazi Germany created for Jews. Some of the laws I found especially surprising would be the removing of Anti-Jewish signs during the 1936 Berlin Olympics, Jews’ last testaments and wills would no longer be valid, and finally, the law that allowed Jews to shop for groceries between 4 pm and 5 pm only. The removing of Anti-Jewish signs during the 1936 Berlin Olympics was especially interesting for me because Germany was committing all these atrocities, knew it was wrong, and still managed to try and hide them from the rest of the world. The laws about prohibiting Jews’ last testaments and wills was interesting because it was such a simple thing, and the Nazis took that away from them. Finally, the law that allowed Jews to shop only between 4 pm and 5 pm was surprising to me because people needed food to survive and the Nazis thought that they only needed a hour, adding restrictions on shop