Images - Racial Politics

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1.	Joseph Goebbels Calls for a Boycott of Jewish Businesses (April 1, 1933) In the Nazi worldview, "international Jewry" was the most dangerous racial enemy of the German people. Jews were supposedly responsible for the biological degeneration of the nation and for all the....
2.	SA Members Hang Boycott Posters on a Jewish Shop in Munich (April 1, 1933) After Hitler became chancellor, members of the SA and NSDAP quickly took the "Solution of the Jewish Question" into their own hands. In arbitrary individual actions, Nazi adherents beat, arrested,....
3.	SA Members in Front of the Tietz Department Store in Berlin (April 1, 1933) On April 1, 1933, during the boycott of Jewish shops called for by Goebbels, SA members eagerly posted....
4.	Himmler Announces the Closure of a Jewish Shop in Munich – the Proprietor had been Transported to Dachau (May/June 1933) The "Jewish Boycott" of April 1, 1933, was a failure for the National Socialists in many respects. The....
5.	Disbarment: A Jewish Lawyer is Removed from the List of Lawyers Licensed to Practice at the District Court of Tilsit in East Prussia (June 9, 1933) After Hitler took office, Jewish jurists became the particularly hated targets of violent attacks. For example, on March 11, 1933, SA men stormed into the Breslau [Wroclaw] courthouse and assaulted....
6.	"First a German, then a Civil Servant" (July 31, 1933) The race laws of April 7, 1933, were part of the National Socialist “coordination” [Gleichschaltung]....
7.	Session of the Presidential Committee of the "Reich Deputation of German Jews" in Berlin (1933) In September 1933, in response to the anti-Semitic attitude of the new Nazi regime, a number of Jewish organizations and associations came together to form the "Reich Deputation of German Jews,"....
8.	Shoemaker's Apprenticeship Program for Members of the Jewish Community in Berlin (1935) The expropriation of the Jews and their exclusion....
9.	Spanish Class for Members of the Berlin Jewish Community Who Were Willing to Emigrate (1935) Although German Jews were subjected to arbitrary violence, burdens, and humiliations, and although their economic situation grew steadily worse, many saw emigration as a difficult step to take. It....
10.	"For Aryans Only": Official Inscription on Park Benches (1935) After Hitler took power, the approximately 525,000 Jews living in Germany were exposed to a series of discriminatory laws that drove them out of all spheres of public and economic life. Legislation....
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