Oldal 108 [108]
We could say it is up to the alien to take steps to shed their alien
status. They should work themselves to the bone, acculturate, fit
in. There is a fitting Shakespeare quote for this, too, in The Mer¬
chant of Venice. Jessica, who is Jewish, also wants this. She desires
equality from marrying a Christian:
Jessica:
I shall be saved by my husband; he hath made me a
Christian.
Launcelot:
... This making Christians will raise the
price of hogs
(Act III, Scene V)
Which is to say that the assimilation of the social climber is also
forcefully rejected. It is unwanted, you are unwanted: vanish,
forever if possible. Here, Shakespeare is genius—as always.
Gratiano
O, be thou damn d, inexecrable dog!
And for thy life let justice be accused. (Act IV, Scene I)
Which is to say that it is the fault of bad laws that the alien cannot
be removed from the ranks of humanity with a single legal proce¬
dure. They solve this (also) later. Not only SS Obergruppenführer
Heydrich took part in the Wannsee Conference in 1942, but many
office workers, legal experts, and civil servants. The goal: to find the
points in the law that would allow the “Endlésung” to be executed.
It was for this purpose that many minor bureaucrats gathered in
the villa in Wannsee (Heydrich and Eichmann were practically
the only high-ranking Nazis there). Each and every one of them
contributed: mostly peaceful, all absolutely normal people. None
would have hurt anyone, not even a fly. They had families, chil¬
dren, and dogs. By themselves they were absolutely uninteresting.
They would had lived their little lives uneventfully without anyone
noticing that they had been on Earth for a while. They were little
people who did not think, faceless, dissolved in the mass. Hanna