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The Nazi Persecution of Jews - Coggle Diagram
The Nazi Persecution of Jews
The Jewish Response
the 525,000 Jews in Germany vowed to keep calm despite
the Nazis coming into power
They hoped that the Nazis would not be very anti-Semitic after they came into power
Were happy that only three Nazis were in the govt: Hitler, Hermann Görring and Wilhelm Frick
Jewish war veterans went to see Hans Lammers on April 4th and showed proof that 12000 German Jews had died in WW1
Hitler declined to see the Jewish veterans and this was the last meeting between them and the Nazis
A Jewish professor announced that he had voted for the Nazis since 1927
Many hoped that votes would continue to decline, relied on Hindenburg to maintain traditional German values
Jews were lulled into a false sense of security and initially, Nazis were more concerned with the communist threat
The Shop Boycott
The SA or the 'brown trash' were always ready to pick fights with the Jews
1 April 1933
- The SA organized a boycott of Jewish shops all over Germany; was disappointing as most Germans continued to buy from the shops
Hitler was directly involved in this boycott, he made this clear to cabinet members on
29 March
In response to foreign retaliation, the Nazis justified the boycott as a 'spontaneous demonstration of anti-Jewish feelings'
On 3 April, it was published in the National Observer that some Germans tried to force their way into Jewish-owned stores
Eastern European Jews were some of the first to be sent to the concentration camp in Dachau in 1933
Saul Friedländer shed light on the SA breaking into the homes of the Jews in HEsse
Jews were murdered individually and the police took no action
The rule of law stopped operating on
30 Jan 1933
and the Jews had no legal protection
The Legal Assualt
The Nazis were able to exclude Germans from mainstream German life
Jews were excluded from the membership of legal profession - judges were instructed to retire in
March 1933
and Jews were prevented form serving juries
Hindenburg was worried about the discrimination of Jewish veterans - 3 days after he wrote to Hitler about this, the
Law of the Restoration of the Professional Standard of the Civil Service
was passed
This exempted Jewish veterans from the terms, but Jews were excluded from the German Civil Service
'non-Aryans' were deemed unacceptable, hence they could not be employed - 4th point was made into law
There was no political opposition to the Nazi's anti-Semitic measures - SD party and Catholic Centre Party were banned
On 2 May 1933, Hitler banned trade unions and decreed that May Day would be a public holiday
only 5% of spots in schools were allotted to Jews in
April 1933
Jewish academics were forced out of post and Jewish lawyers were forbidden form practicing
Goebbels established a Reich Chamber of Culture in
Sept 1933
- forbade Jews from finding a job in the performing arts sector
An 'Aryan Paragraph' in the National Press Law prevented Jews form working as journalists - this was called 'bringing it into line')
any complaints against anti-Semitic measures became illegal
