Describe how the Jews were discriminated against in Germany from 1933 to 1939?

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Describe how the Jews were discriminated against in Germany from 1933 to 1939?

Between the years, the Jews were put through a lot, this was because the Jews were economically discriminated which meant that many Jews lost their jobs. This also meant that the Jews didn’t have much money, so they couldn’t buy clothes and food. It was hard to earn a living. At the beginning of these years nothing drastic happened to the Jews but then matters began to get worse.

        In May 1935, all Jews were band from having a job in the army. This meant that they couldn’t earn a good living.

        In September 1935, Hitler passed a Law for the Protection of German Blood and Honour, this meant that a Jewish man or woman could not marry anyone from the German public and this was the same for the Germans, that they couldn’t marry a Jew. Also in September 1935, Hitler passed the Nuremburg Laws and this meant that Jews lost the right to vote and this was political discrimination.  

        The punishments almost stopped when Germany held the Olympics and this was because Hitler did not want any other countries finding out what he was doing and also how he was doing it. Many Jews did not leave the country because they believed that when the discrimination stopped that was the end

        But when the punishments started again, in 1936 the Jews were banned from all professional jobs, like doctors and lawyers. In the same year Jewish properties were burnt down and these included shops, houses and synagogues. Many Jews were also assaulted.

        In 1938, Jewish children were excluded from public schools and it was also the year of kristallnacht. This meant that Night of Broken Glass, and on this day over 100 Jews were killed and just over 20,000 were sent off to concentration camps. Because of this night the Jews were demanded to pay one billion Reichmarks as compensation. It was total destruction of buildings and a word for this is pogrom. Pogrom means the total destruction of property. In this year Jews were also publicly discriminated and this is because men were made to take the name ‘Israel’ and women were made to have their middle name as ‘Sara.’ Also the Jews had their passport stamped with the letter ‘J’ this was so that they were easy to recognise. Many of the Jews also had their passports taken away from them and this was so that they didn’t leave the country.

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        In 1939, Jews were subjected to a curfew. And also in this year the Gestapo took away all radios from the Jews. The Jews had been through a lot during 1933 and 1939, the treatments got worse and worse as the years progressed from 1939.

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