How the Jews were discriminated against in Germany from 1933 to 1939.

On 15th September 1935, the Nuremberg Laws were passed. These were two laws, which stripped Jews of their German citizenship, and took away their right to marry Germans or to have sexual relations outside marriage with them. In 1938, four more laws were passed, stripping the Jews of more of their human rights. They had to add either 'Israel' or 'Sara' to the start of their name depending on whether they were male or female respectively. They weren't allowed to own shops, trade, advertise, or order goods for selling at markets fairs or exhibitions. Jewish children had to go to Jewish schools and were expelled from German schools. Jews were banned from all theatres, shows, concert and lecture halls, museums etc, and even some roads in Berlin. As well as all this, the Jews were made to have their passports stamped with the letter 'J' to signify their race.

In November of 1938, a Jew shot a Nazi and from the 10th to the 12th of November in retaliation, the SA carried out 'Kristallnacht'. Also known as 'The night of broken glass', the SA murdered 91 Jews, smashed 10,000 Jewish shopkeepers' windows and stole contents from those shops, burnt down about 200 synagogues, and put 20,000 Jews in concentration camps. As if adding insult to injury, the Jewish community was finally ordered to pay a one billion marks fine.

In schools, Jewish children were persecuted in, and then expelled from all German schools. Often, the Jews would be sent to one side of the classroom and the 'Aryans' would have to point out the differences between themselves and the Jews. The idea of natural selection was also emphasised and exaggerated, and textbooks were also changed to say that Aryans were racially superior to all others. Some textbooks even included pictures of Aryans and Jews showing how the Aryan could 'work and fight', but the Jew was the 'greatest scoundrel in the whole Reich.

It wasn't only children who fed propaganda, because magazines told of how blonde blue-eyed Aryan men should only marry a virgin blonde blue-eyed Aryan woman. Aryans who had sexual relations with Jews or vice-versa were often made to stand in the street with a sign around their neck telling of the deed they had committed.

In 1939, the second world war broke out and all Jews in Germany were made to wear the star of David which was about the size of your palm.