18) Nazi policies towards the Jews (1933-37)

• Boycott of Jewish shops


  April 1933

  SA stood outside Jewish shops and discouraged people going in but many Germans defied them

  Only lasted 1 day
• Civil Service Laws


  1933
• Law for the Restoration of a Professional Civil Service


  required jews to be dismissed from roles of lawyers, doctors and teachers
• How many Jewish travelling salesmen lost their jobs?

  30,000
• How many working Jews had full employment in 1933


  only 16%
• Hindenburg's exemption for the Civil Service Laws


  Jews who had served in the armed forces in WW1. After Hindenburg's death there were no exceptions
• How many Jews emigrated in 1933?

  37,000
• Law against overcrowding of German schools and universities


  Restricted the number of Jews in state education.

  Not completely removed until 1938
• Nuremberg Laws


  1935 laws defining the status of Jews and withdrawing citizenship from persons of non-German blood.
• Nuremberg Laws - The Reich Citizenship Law


  restricted citizenship to those who had 'pure' German blood and Jews denied citizenship
• Nuremberg Laws - Law for the Protection of German Blood and Honour


  outlawed marriage between Aryans and non-Aryans
• Nuremberg Laws - First Supplementary Decree on the Reich Citizenship Law


  'half-Jews' (Mischlinge) allowed to serve in lower ranks of military but 'full Jews' could not
• Effectiveness of discrimination


  Many Gestapo reports show that many Germans didn't support the discrimination but varied between areas
• Berlin Olympics of 1936


  Only members of the Aryan race to compete for Germany.

  Removed antisemitic signs from the city's main tourist attractions. They also removing all the gypsies to a separated camp.