Long before the first trains left for the concentration camps, the Jews in Germany were isolated not by putting them in ghettos but instead by removing them from every aspect of social life.
On 29 November 1938, the Jews were forbidden to keep carrier pigeons, aka homing or postal pigeons, as ordered by The Reich Ministry of the Interior.
You may think, “What’s the big deal in that?” It may not look like a very harsh measure, but this law was the last law ensuring the Jews would have no communication with the outside world.
Anyone who knows about keeping carrier pigeons knows these birds were not just common pigeons. They are trained for a long time, and it is very costly.
So not only did the Nazi regime starve the Jews from the last means of communication, it also destroyed a hobby of those who would have invested a lot of time and money.
Yet another bit of psychological torment.
Sources
https://encyclopedia.ushmm.org/content/en/article/antisemitic-legislation-1933-1939
https://alphahistory.com/holocaust/anti-jewish-laws
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