The wish that Jews might disappear, perhaps suppressed at first, rose as it was leavened by greed. Thus the Germans who marked shops as "Jewish" participated in the process by which Jews really did disappear -- as did people who simply looked on. Accepting the markings as a natural part of the urban landscape was already a compromise with a murderous future.
-- Timothy Snyder, On Tyranny, p. 34-35
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