Unit 5.2 - Antisemitism

Question 1

What event occurred in April 1933 regarding Jewish shops and businesses?

Answer 1

Boycott of Jewish shops and businesses that lasted one day

This was a significant event in Nazi Germany, marking early anti-Jewish measures.

Question 2

Why did Hitler initiate the boycott of Jewish shops in April 1933?

Answer 2

As retaliation against foreign boycotts of German goods

The foreign boycotts were due to disapproval of the Nazi regime

Question 3

What ambiguity arose during the April 1933 boycott of Jewish shops?

Answer 3

Ambiguity over what classified as a Jewish shop

This created confusion regarding the enforcement of the boycott.

Question 4

What dilemma did Hitler face in relation to the SA and SS during the boycott?

Answer 4

Utilising the SA and SS

The SA (Sturmabteilung) and SS (Schutzstaffel) were paramilitary organizations that posed challenges for Hitler’s control.

Question 5

What law was enacted in April 1933 regarding the Civil Service?

Answer 5

Law for the Restoration of the Professional Civil Service

Question 6

What was the main restriction imposed by the Law for the Restoration of the Professional Civil Service?

Answer 6

Jews are banned from working in the Civil Service

Question 7

Who insisted on exemptions for some Jews from the ban?

Answer 7

Hindenburg

Question 8

What criteria allowed Jews to be exempt from the Civil Service ban?

Answer 8

Jews who served in World War One or whose fathers died in World War One

Question 9

How many Jews left Germany by the end of 1933?

Answer 9

30,000 Jews left Germany by the end of 1933

Question 10

What was enacted in April 1933 regarding German schools and universities?

Answer 10

A law against overcrowding that led to the removal of Jews from educational settings.

Question 11

Who was affected by the law against overcrowding in German educational institutions?

Answer 11

Both teachers and students who were Jewish.

Question 12

How was the law framed to justify the removal of Jews from schools?

Answer 12

It was framed as a way for schools and universities to save valuable resources for worthy German citizens.

Question 13

What happened in April 1933 regarding Jewish doctors in Germany?

Answer 13

Jewish doctors were banned.

Question 14

What percentage of doctors in Germany were Jewish before the ban?

Answer 14

10% of doctors were Jewish.

Question 15

What was the impact of the ban on Jewish doctors?

Answer 15

Germany lost a tenth of its doctors because of the ban.

Question 16

What type of propaganda spread about Jewish doctors?

Answer 16

Propaganda made Jewish doctors out to be predatory.

Question 17

What were jews excluded from in October 1933?

Answer 17

Exclusion of German Jews from the press

Question 18

What impacts did the exclusion of German Jews from the press have?

Answer 18

The removal of Jewish influence from the media

Question 19

When were the Nuremburg Laws introduced?

Answer 19

September 1935

Question 20

Why did the Nazis introduce the Nuremberg Laws?

Answer 20

influenced by declining popularity for the nazi regime

Question 21

Why did the Nuremburg Laws ban sexual relations and marrisge between Jews ans Aryans?

Answer 21

To further enforce ideas of racial superiority towards the Aryans and inferiority towards the Jews

Question 22

How many Jewish grandparents did ypu need top have top new classes as Jewish?

Answer 22

Three (or two if you practised Judaism or had a Jewish spouse)

Question 23

Define Mischlinge

Answer 23

a “mixed race” of Jewish and Aryan

Question 24

Why did the persecution of Jewish people stop during the 1936 Berlin Olympics?

Answer 24

for publicity reasons as there was concern over how international communities would react