The Discrimination Against Jews in Germany 1933-1939

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The Discrimination Against Jews in Germany 1933-1939

Between 1933 and 1939 the first record of discrimination against Jews

is in 1933. In April 1933 there was an official one-day boycott of

Jewish shops, lawyers and doctors across the whole of Germany. This

action was taken within a couple of days of Nazi power, many people

even Jews didn't think that Nazis would act on their anti-Jewish

ideas. Nazis continued to print the anti-Jewish propaganda in their

newspaper Der Stürmer.

One Jewish lawyer was treated very badly in 1933 there is a report

written by Beate his daughter, "On 10th march 1933 my father went to

police headquarters to lay a complaint on behalf of one of his clients

who had been arrested. When he got to the police headquarters someone

said to him, "Dr. Siegel you're wanted in room number so-and-so" which

happened to be in the basement - and my father said, "Fine, I'm in

good time. I'll go there first."

And when he got there he saw that it was full of Brown shirt thugs who

proceeded to beat him up. They knocked his teeth in and bust his

eardrums. They cut off his trouser legs and took off his shoes and

socks, and hung a placard around his neck with the legend, I'm a Jew

and I will never complain to the police again." They led my father

around Munich in that condition for maybe an hour, and then they let

him go."

For the next two years there wasn't much more organised Jew

persecution except in 1934 when they increased the amount of

anti-Jewish propaganda.

However in 1935 they picked up Jew persecution. May of 1935, Jews were

now forbidden to join the army. Even though many had fought beside

Germans in the First World War.

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