Describe how Jews were discriminated Against in Germany from 1933 - 1939?

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Describe how Jews were discriminated Against in Germany from 1933 – 1939?

In 1933 Hitler became chancellor of Germany and the Nazis came into power. At this point Germany was in a bad condition from the Wall Street crash. Hitler hated the Jews and he blamed them for faults in recent German history. No body could deny that Hitler was a great public speaker after all he gave Germany hope and told them what they wanted to hear besides the public had been brainwashed with anti - Jewish propaganda since 1925 they were ready to listen to their leader.

In 1933 for one day they had an April boycott which was social discrimination as all Germans all over the country were told not to buy from shops and business owned by Jews. The SA men stood by the doors of these shops to discourage anyone from going in side which made many shops loose out on business. The Jews were also forced out of jobs in the law the civil service, dentistry, journalism, teaching and farming. This was very unfair to the Jews as they were getting restricted to what they were allowed to do as a career. They were also barred from all sports and athletics clubs. Throughout 1933 there were random acts of violence against Jews by Nazi thugs. The police and the courts did not protect Jews from such attacks.

As the Jews were deprived of opportunities in 1933 this carried on into 1934 as Jews were now no longer allowed to work in theatres or forced out if them. These measures were widely accepted by the majority of the German public.

In 1935 again it was social discrimination as the Jews were no longer citizens of Germany and lost their right to vote. Jews were banned from the German armed forces. The Jews were no longer allowed to marry Aryans or to have sexual relations with them. Their punishment for breaking this law was imprisonment, mixed marriages believed the German people were the strongest and Aryans were superior not just because of their intelligence but because of their capacity to work hard and sacrifice themselves for their country.

In 1936 there was racial discrimination as the Olympic Games, berlins gypsies were forced to move to a temporary camp outside the city. A black American athlete won four gold medals at the 1936 Berlin Olympic Games. His achievement undermined the Nazi belief in the superiority of Aryan athlete and Hitler refused to congratulate his as he thought black people were close to Jews in the Nazi view of the ‘human race’. The affects of deprived jobs carried on right through until 1939. In 1936 hews were not allowed to become vets. They were also no longer allowed to own electrical and optical equipment, bicycles, typewriters or records and were ordered to hand them over to the authorities. Some Jews wrongly felt that persecution might be ending.

In 1937 it was social discrimination as Gypsies all over Germans were photographed fingerprinted and registered as part of a Nazi campaign to fight. The gypsy menaces ‘The police enabled a new law to send gypsies to work house for two years if they did not have a regular job. This was most of them as they had been banned or forced out of their jobs as they were not welcome. Those who tried to leave the work houses were sent to concentration camps where they were very badly treated.

In 1938 there was racial discrimination Jewish men were made to take ‘Israel’ as a middle name; Jewish were made to take ‘Sara’ as a middle name so you could tell, if they were German or Jewish. The Jews had their passports removed to prevent them from leaving the country. Kritallnacht – in one night of violence across Germany and Austria 91 Jews were murdered, synagogues were burnt, sacred objects were desecrated, shop windows were smashed and 20,000 Jewish men rounded up and sent to concentration camps. Germany united with Austria and 185,000 Austrian Jews came under Nazi rule five years of anti – Jewish laws in Germany came into effect virtually overnight.

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All future anti – Jewish laws in Germany applied to Austrian Jews as well. Britain, France and Italy agreed that Germany could take territory called the Sudetenland from Czechoslovakia. Jews living in that area fled to Czechoslovakia.

 In 1938 this is really when the physical discrimination started. Jews were banned from owning business. Jewish children were banned from attending German schools. They were excluded from cinemas, theatres, concerts, exhibitions, beaches and holiday resorts. Jewish publishing houses and book shops were closed down. Jewish and gypsy children were forbidden to play with ‘Aryan’ children. Large numbers of gypsies were ...

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