Chapter 6 & 7
Why did the general {non-religious) German-Jewish population find the Nuremberg Laws particularly traumatizing?
Because they thought of themselves and truly Germans first.
What significant change in status did the Nuremberg Laws accord the Jews?
Defined Judaism as a race rather than as a religion.
How did the Nuremberg Laws eventually affect Jews outside Germany?
Established the precedent for antisemitic policies in other European countries conquered by the Nazis.
What effect did the policy ofAryanization achieve?
Gradually and inevitably destroyed German-Jewish economic well-being.
How did the Germans single out the Ostjuden for mistreatment in 1933?
Hitler passed the Law for the Repeal ofNaturalization, stripping citizenship from all those who had received it after the outbreak of World War I in August 1914
Why did German-Jewish leaders send telegrams to Jewish groups outside of Germany insisting on ending the anti-Nazi demonstrations?
Nazi threats of retaliation made the German Jews so concerned for the safety of their communities
Describe the antisemitic attacks that took place in Germany during and immediately after 1933
Nazi thugs began to roam the streets, attacking Jews and destroying their property.
What provisions were contained in the Nuremberg Laws?
Reich Citizenship Law, stripped Jews of citizenship, which left them stateless and without any political rights. The Law for the Protection of German Blood and Honor, forbade Jews to marry Aryans.
What impact did the Law for the Restoration of the Professional Civil Service have on the Jews?
Required that all non-Aryans retire from the civil service, all Jews employed by the government lost their jobs.
How did the boycott damage the Germans economically?
The closing of Jewish businesses hurt the German employees working for the firms.
Immediate and long-term impact of the boycott on German-Jewish businesses.
Uniformed Nazis posted outside every store ensured that no customers entered, ruining the owners' profits for the day.
How did foreign Jews and non-Jews react to the persecution of German Jews?
United to protest the Nazis' treatment of Jews
How did the Nazis justify the boycott?
a necessary "punishment" of the Jews for supposedly instigating anti-German sentiment in western countries.
What milestone did the boycott ofApril 1, 1933, signify in Nazi Germany's treatment oftheJews?
first government-sponsored legal act against the Jews
What was ironic about the German prohibition of shechitah?
they had no feeling of guilt about treating Jews inhumanely.
