How did the Nazis know if a Jewish person did not wear their yellow star?
Everyone was required to carry identification papers with them at all times. If the Gestapo had any reason to suspect that one was Jewish, they simply said: “Your papers” and inspected them to make a determination. This is tacitly similar to the plan Arizona is trying to implement. Of course, while it is quite obvious that this Arizona law opens the door to rampant racial profiling, most of the Nazi comparisons you hear ignore the pertinent fact that the Gestapo weren’t checking peoples documents to catch them trying to enter Germany, but just the opposite. Those caught in Arizona without the proper documentation are sent back to their country of origin, not a death camp. But these facts are either not known to those who make such comparisons, or are just ignored. So, while the Arizona law is not a Nazi law, we have much higher standards to uphold than did Hitler’s thugs and should not be requiring such papers to be carried around. In the end, it will be found to be unconstitutional. T
