19) Furthering anti-semitic policies and actions (1938-40)

• Effects of Anschluss with Austria in 1938


  - Racial policies became more radical

  - Occupation allowed Nazis to persecute the Jews in Austria

  - Allies didn't intervene to uphold the ToV so Hitler believed he could go further e.g. invade Poland
• Decree for the Registration of Jewish Property


  April 1938 - Jews had to register all property and anything worth over 5000 marks was confiscated
• Identification of Jews through their names

  1538-39

  All Jewish women had to take the name Sarah and men had to take the name Israel
• Jews had to have their passports marked with 'J'

  October 1938
• Jews banned from luxuries e.g. theatres, cinemas, concerts, chocolate


  September 1938
• Reichkristallnacht


  9-10 Nov 1938

  Jewish homes and businesses looted and synagogues burnt
• How many Jews killed at Reichkristallnacht?

  91
• How many Jews placed under 'preventative custody' at Reichkristallnacht?

  30,000
• How many synagogues set fire to on Reichkristallnacht?

  191
• The Decree for Restoration of the Street scene


  ordered that Jews had to pay for the repairs of Reichkristallnacht which amounted to 1 billion Reichmarks
• How many Jews chose to emigrate between 1933 and 1938?

  150,000
• Kindertransport scheme


  900 Jewish children sent to Britain as safe havens
• Impact of the invasion of Poland in 1939


  - Led to declaration of war

  - settled Germans in Western Poland by driving out Jews

  - Shifted tactics from emigration to concentration

  - More extreme policies
• Madagascar Plan


  June 1940 - looked at transporting 4 million Jews to Madagascar in harsh conditions but not practical because the British Royal Navy would be able to intercept ships transporting them