LibGuides: Jewish Life in Nazi Germany: Boycotts and Persecution

Adolf Hitler's Rise to Power

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To the Nazis the depression was a source of great satisfaction. Hitler had built an intricate political organization and a private army of storm troopers dedicated to violence, terror, and Adolf Hitler. Now the Nazi movement grew fat on the wholesale unemployment and discontent.
"Germany will be revenged," he ranted. "A new and greater Reich will rise from the ashes. Every German will have a job and bread." And the hopeless and hungry masses responded [cheering; music in]. In the 1930 election they did well; by 1932 the German people gave the Nazis enough votes to make them the largest party in the Nation. "In the evening the people's will power more easily succumbs to the dominating force of a stronger will," said Hitler. Aided by the failure of German democracy, supported by the selfish interests of the Army and big business, Hitler's star rose.
And the aging President Hindenburg appointed him Chancellor. Once in power, Hitler moved quickly and ruthlessly to crush all opposition.
Into the fire went the books of so-called anti-German writers. He told the newspapers what to print and what to leave out. He persecuted the churches, and began his terrible campaign against the Jews.
With the terror of the Gestapo and the concentration camps he liquidated his political opposition. Surrounded by fanatical henchmen like Hermann Goering, the ex-corporal legislated by decree. Now there was only one law in the Third Reich, a state in which the life and liberty of every German were in the hands of one man --the Fuhrer.

Boycotting Jewish Businesses - Germany 1933-1935

Anti-Jewish boycott of German Jews by Nazi's shortly after the Hitler Government took office: 1933-1934.. Photography. Britannica ImageQuest, Encyclopædia Britannica, 25 May 2016.
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Boycott of Jewish shops / Berlin, 1933. Fine Art. Britannica ImageQuest, Encyclopædia Britannica, 25 May 2016.
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Photograph of Nazis singing to encourage a boycott of the allegedly Jewish-founded Woolworths. Photograph. Britannica ImageQuest, Encyclopædia Britannica, 22 Apr 2020.
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SA men / Boycott of Jewish businesses.. Photograph. Britannica ImageQuest, Encyclopædia Britannica, 25 May 2016.
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1st April 1933: Boycott of Jewish shops. - National Socialist posters with the demand 'Deutsche wehrt Euch! Kauft nicht bei Juden!' (Germans defend yourselves! Do not buy from Jews!) are stuck to the windows of Jewish shops.

Book Burning - Examples of Targeted Authors and Works

The Communist Manifesto

Commonly known as The Communist Manifesto, the Manifesto of the Communist Party (in German Manifest der Kommunistischen Partei) has been one of the most influential political documents in the world, having a far-reaching effect on twentieth-century political organization. In this 1848 publication, Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels expound the program and purpose of the Communist League who commissioned the work. A critique of the Capitalist order of the time...

A Farewell to Arms

In 1918 Ernest Hemingway went to war, to the 'war to end all wars'. He volunteered for ambulance service in Italy, was wounded and twice decorated. Out of his experiences came his early masterpiece, A Farewell to Arms. In an unforgettable depiction of war, Hemingway recreates the fear, the comradeship, the courage of his young American volunteers and the men and women he encounters along the way with conviction and brutal honesty. A love story of immense drama and uncompromising passion, A Farewell to Arms offers a unique and unflinching view of the world and people, by the winner of the 1954 Nobel Prize for Literature.

Round Dance and Other Plays

The playwright Arthur Schnitzler is best known as the chronicler of fin de siecle Viennese decadence. Round Dance, written in the late 1890s, exposes sexual life in Vienna with such witty frankness that it could not be staged until after the First World War, when it provoked a riot in the theatre and a prosecution for indecency. Acquainted with Freud and his circle, Schnitzler probes beneath the surface of his characters to uncover emotions they barely understand. And in the tragicomedy Professor Bernhardi, Schnitzler addresses the growing anti-Semitism of the period.

All Quiet on the Western Front

The book describes the German soldiers'extreme physical and mental stress during the war, and the detachment from civilian life felt by many of these soldiers upon returning home from the front. Beautifully illustrated, this classic tale will capture children's interest and spark their imagination inspiring a lifelong love of literature and reading.

Book Burning

The Book Burning / Berlin / 1933. Photograph. Britannica ImageQuest, Encyclopædia Britannica, 25 May 2016.
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The Book Burning in Berlin, 1933 at the Berlin Opernplatz on 10 May 1933. ('Action against the un-German spirit'). - Students and National Socialists throw black-listed literature into the fire. They were burning communist and Jewish books, branded as offensive, in the 'struggle against anti-German feeling',

Book Burning. Photographer. Britannica ImageQuest, Encyclopædia Britannica, 25 May 2016.
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