When a minority group is ostracized from a larger population and regarded as inferior, individuals in that group suffer from what is known as “social death.” This prejudicial treatment manifests as humiliation and terror of the victimized minority. In Marion Kaplan’s Between Dignity and Despair: Jewish life in Nazi Germany, we see the social death of Jews. From the Middle Ages on, the Jews have been targeted as scapegoats and subjected to persecution. The social death of the Jews reached a climax in Germany in 1933 when Hitler seized power. His propaganda touted the superiority of the “master race” made of Aryans. Ostracized and prohibited from interacting with the Aryans, Jews were regarded as subhuman. The Nazi regime shut down businesses