3 - Boycotts Flashcards
When was the first boycott and who was it against??
1st April 1933 - Jewish shops and businesses
Why did the boycott happen??
Obvious reasons but the reason claimed was in response to international jews boy cotting german shops.
What were the issues with the boycott??
Featured promiently in German and world news.
Many shops were half german and half jews so confusion.
Many used the shops to show opposition to the regime.
Abandoned after one day
SA were annoyed cause they thought it would be indefinite
What was Hitlers aim comapred to the radicalist aims??
Hitler was more focused on the LEGAL revolution and was concerned about conservative supporters reactions and foreign opinions.
Radicalists thought it was Nazi taking control and they wanted the revolutin to continue to a glorious new Nazi period.
How was the boycott viewed??
Unleashing of Nazi violence from dictatorship only 1 week after enabling act.
What was another exmapled of anti-semitism??
April 1933 - Law for the restoration of German Civil Service - banned jews but Hidenburg demanded exception for orphans and veterans.
Issue was it was hard to tell who was Jew and who was German.
Jewish middle class were the victims.
1933 - 37,000 jews left germany.
How was education restricted??
April 1933: Law Against Overcrowding of German Schools (No. of Students and teachers dropped)
Well educated Jew seen as threat (propaganda)
Process not complete until 1938
What are the Nurmburg laws??
15th September -
Reich Citizenship Law - only citizen if oure blooded german
Law for the Protection of German Law and Honour - banned marraige and sexual relations with Non Aryans and Aryans.
November 1935 - The first supplimentary degree on the Reich Citizenship law said what was a full jew and what was a Mischlinge.
Those who had 3 or 2 jewish grandparents or were married to a jew were “Full Jew”
The law was later extended to cover any physical touch.
What did the legislation mean??
Jews were left wiht obligation to the state but had no political or human rights and were powerless to the Nazi bureaucracy.
