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or you can get all of History Daily plus other fantastic history podcasts at IntoHistory.com. It's February 27, 1943 in Berlin, Germany.

44-year-old Julius Israel shivers in his thin jacket as he steps outside the gates of a large

armaments factory.

Once a tailor, Julius is now being forced to work on an assembly line,

turning out weapons for the Nazi war machine.

After his latest exhausting shift in the factory,

Julius begins the long walk home to his wife,

but he barely makes it ten yards before a tarp-covered truck

skids to a halt in front of him. Armed police jump out and bark at Julius to get inside.

Julius doesn't resist. During a volley of insults and slurs from the police, he climbs into the

back of the truck, which then roars off down the street.

Julius has seen many others taken in raids like this ever since Adolf Hitler came to power,

though he's never been the victim before.

He is Jewish, but he's partly protected from the Nazis by his marriage.

His wife is what race theorists call Aryan,

and it's her status that has kept Julius out of concentration camps until today.

Sitting next to him in the back of the truck, Julius recognizes other intermarried men like him.

And as the vehicle rumbles down the streets of Berlin, Julius grows terrified that the fragile protection their marriages have afforded them is finally at an end.

Julius Israel is right to be worried.

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