Living in Nazi Germany Peter Gay and his family did not feel a major need to flee because they did not identify as Jewish, Peter was still going to school and adjusting to a new country seemed difficult. As events unfolded and the Nazi Party grew more powerful, the urge to leave became more and more necessary for Peter and his family to escape Nazi Germany before it was too late. There were three ways to be classified as a Jew in Nazi Germany: conversion, birth, or decree. Peter and his family did not consider themselves Jewish, they were only considered Jewish by the Nazi classification by decree (Gay 48). They considered themselves Germans and atheists (Gay 50 years old). The family did not think it made sense to classify a “race,” produced by unscientific and unhistorical elements (Gay 110). To distance the family from Jewish classification, they did not have the “look” that could help distinguish your Jewishness. Peter had a straight nose, blue eyes, and brown hair (Gay 57). He could go out in public and blend in in which he had the opportunity to attend sporting events in which he could blend in with the environment (Gay 57). Peter still had the option of attending public school because his father had been injured in the World War, which gave his family some exceptions to be admitted to such a small number of Jews when most could not. at that time. The school started slowly on anti-Semitism, but then it became more transparent. They began to sing a song referring to Jewish blood spurting from a knife (Gay 64). Even though every day in his school, anti-Semitism became more and more apparent because the teachers misled the Jewish students (Gay 65 years old). Peter Gay's parents decided to stay because they only spoke German...... middle of newspaper..... .fr how to approach America after their arrival in Cuba. In the 1920s and 1930s, the rise of the Nazi Party gained supporters thanks to Adolf Hitler. We learn in Peter's memoir that he gained followers through propaganda. When he gained enough support, he began implementing the threats that became known as the Third Reich. Hitler began with the boycott, legal excursions, the Nuremberg laws, Kristallnacht, then a total ban. The most alarming and revealing event was Kristallnacht, when the Germans broke the windows of Jews' homes. It also cost the lives of around a hundred Jews and took over twenty-six thousand Jews to concentration camps. (Gay 132) This made Hitler's power obvious: he did not want Jews in Germany and emigration was compulsory. That this time it was more than just a threat, it will be implemented.