Treatment of Jewish people

• 1933:

  • SA boycott of Jewish businesses
  • Signs painted on doors telling people not to buy from Jews
  • A new law excluded Jews from government jobs
  • Jewish books were burnt
• 1934:

  • Jews banned from public places such as parks and swimming pools
• 1935:

  • The Nuremberg Laws introduced a series of laws against Jews
  • If you were Jewish, you could not have ‘German blood’ and therefore weren’t allowed to be a German citizen
  • Lost the right to vote
  • Law for the Protection of German Blood banned sex or marriage between Jews and Germans
• 1938:

  • Jews had to carry identity cards with the middle name ‘Sarah’ or ‘Israel’
• November 1938:

  • Kristallnacht (Night of the Broken Glass) occurred after a Polish Jew killed a German official
  • Nazis responded by smashing up Jewish shops and setting fire to synagogues
  • 100 Jews were killed and some 20,000 sent to concentration camps
  • This event marked the start of what we now call ‘the Holocaust’