Humiliation was a common emotional response experienced by many people during and after the Holocaust and World War II. Rituals of public humiliation—such as forcibly shaving Jewish men’s beards, parading couples accused of violating Nazi racial laws, or subjecting people to forced physical exercise—became common features of Nazi persecution. Many people accused of collaborating with the Nazis were also publicly shamed after the war.
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Artistic Responses to Persecution
Jewish Perspectives on the Holocaust"Song of the Oppressed"
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Holocaust Diaries
Jewish Perspectives on the HolocaustDiary of Aron Pik
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American Christians, Nazi Germany, and the Holocaust
Americans and the HolocaustLetter from J. L. Published in The Golden Age
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Holocaust Diaries
Jewish Perspectives on the HolocaustMemoir of Fryderyk Winnykamień
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Black Americans and World War II
Americans and the HolocaustOral History with Leon Bass
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German Police and the Nazi Regime
Everyday Life: Roles, Motives, and Choices During the HolocaustPhotograph of German Order Police Publicly Humiliating a Jewish Man
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Experiences of Forced Labor in Wartime Europe
Everyday Life: Roles, Motives, and Choices During the HolocaustPhotograph of Jews Cleaning Streets in Vienna
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Public Health under the Third Reich
Everyday Life: Roles, Motives, and Choices During the HolocaustPhotograph of Prisoners Forced to Exercise
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Everyday Encounters with Fascism
Everyday Life: Roles, Motives, and Choices During the HolocaustPublic Humiliation of a Young Couple
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Higher Education in Nazi Germany
Everyday Life: Roles, Motives, and Choices During the HolocaustTelegram Regarding the "Action against the Un-German Spirit"
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Gender, Sexuality, and the Holocaust
Jewish Perspectives on the HolocaustUSHMM Oral History with Blanka Rothschild
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Gender, Sexuality, and the Holocaust
Jewish Perspectives on the HolocaustUSHMM Oral History with Dora Goldstein Roth