NY Historic Society: Anti-Semitism 1919-1939

The NY Historic Soc is presenting an exhibition on Anti-Semitism from 1919-1939 in Germany.  The intent is to show the systematic, legislative groundworks that were founded & progressed into the  organized Nazi regime committed to the genocide 6,000,000 Jews.  The original artifacts from this period are disturbing although they are presented in a strictly academic fashion.  The official proclamations, newsprints, signs and paraphanelia pertaining to this period are all in German.  The most startling of all items is an original printing of the Nuremberg Laws that were the milestone on which Hitler built his arsenal of restrictions, laws and extermination orders.  Still, the horrors of the holocaust are mitigated by the reliance on the curation in English above the historic paraphernalia.  The well intentioned exhibit  presents unequivocally, evidence attesting to how the Nazis regime established power.  The relevance of the exhibit is prescient and ubiquitous.  Still, the impact did not resonate as painfully as I had expected. It felt like an antiseptic dissertation on German papers that survived rather than on the millions of people who died as a result.