@worldin24hrs: Soviet Union, 1941. A German soldier grips the payots — the traditional side curls worn by Orthodox Jewish men — of a Jewish man on a street while holding scissors and smiling directly at the camera. A crowd watches. The soldier is performing for whoever is taking the photograph. This was not a spontaneous act. The public humiliation of Jewish men — cutting their beards and payots, forcing them to perform degrading tasks in the street, photographing the results — was a systematic practice that German soldiers and police units engaged in across occupied Poland and the Soviet Union from the earliest days of the war. The men who did this kept the photographs as souvenirs. They sent them home to their families. They showed them to their friends. The Holocaust did not begin in gas chambers. It began with this — with the public performance of contempt, the teaching of dehumanisation to everyone who watched and the documentation of humiliation as entertainment. Never forget what it started with. Follow us for daily history content 👉 @historylbt2.0 💬 Do you think understanding the early stages of persecution is essential to preventing genocide? Drop it in the comments below! #holocaust #neverforget #ww2 #jewishhistory #historylovers​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​

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