In the book All But My Life the main character Gerda talks about the Holocaust from her perspective. There are several examples of “Polarization” a stage of genocide throughout the early stages of the book. At one point Gerda describes how the “Jews” weren’t allowed to have their own gardens and could only freely move about in the local cemetery. This is a text book example, in how the Nazi’s try to keep the “Jews” and the “Aryans” away from each other in their psychopathic march towards “racial purity”. That of course is what polarization is; keeping the two groups away from each other.
Also later in the book Gerda describes how when on a trip with her father’s friend to the factory he used to own. “Trembling, he pointed to a large red sign with bold white letters:
Dogs and Jews Not Allowed to Enter...” (Weissmann Klein, 1957, p.26).
This the fact that they are keeping Jews from working or even being near the area were many used to work or even owned is polarization.
