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The Process of Exclusion:  Creating “The Other” in Nazi Germany – 2000 & 2003

Pink was for homosexuals. Purple for Jehovah’s Witnesses. Criminals went in green and Gypsies wore black. Yellow was designated for Jews.

Many people knew that Jews under the Nazi regime were forced to wear yellow stars, Stars of David, on their outer clothing. Not everyone knows that the Nazis extended their classification scheme – and their systematic reign of persecution – to include other targeted minorities.

"The Other" is a compelling exhibit that illustrates how the Nazis escalated sentiments of anti-Semitism through newspaper articles, cartoons, and magazines.   They also brainwashed the minds of young children by altering textbooks. 

The illustrations depicted mentally handicapped,  Jehovah's Witnesses, homosexuals, Sinta (gypsies) and especially Jewish people as inferior and different.   These groups were methodically identified, classified, segregated and finally murdered. Propaganda was used ruthlessly in an attempt to purify German society by ridding it of anyone deemed unacceptable.

This temporary exhibit created by William Shulman, President of the AHO (Association of Holocaust Organizations), made such an impact on audiences the first time it was shown that it returned three years later.   Plans call for it to return for another showing in the future.

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