re: Is this feeling what the Jews felt in Germany???

There are probably thousands of conflicts where sizable minority are gradually persecuted for living in a manner that was long deemed perfectly fine. So I think it's just counterproductive to pick Jews in Germany to reflect that when pretty much any other conflict would do.

I agree with the person who referenced being a non-Nazi German in Germany. Watching the institutions give way to a brand of thought and being told to devote yourself to that - counterintuitive, senseless and destructive as it may be - or be deemed the opposition...that is probably more akin to the feeling, perhaps.