Language:
English
Year of publication:
2010
Titel der Quelle:
Leo Baeck Institute Year Book
Angaben zur Quelle:
55 (2010) 149-173
Keywords:
Antisemitism History 1800-2000
;
Jews Economic conditions
;
Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) Economic aspects
;
Jews History 1933-1939
;
Jews
Abstract:
Nazi-organized boycotts of Jewish businesses began early in the Weimar era, in the 1920s, and continued after the Nazi takeover. Although in the 1930s these boycotts succeeded in ruining many Jewish businessmen, their impact was more psychological than economic: they helped the Nazis delineate the German "Volksgemeinschaft", from which the Jews were excluded, and thus enforced the segregation of Jews. The Nazi boycott propaganda was convincing for a broader public, beyond the party, because it combined different antisemitic traditions. Social groups, business associations, and shop owners joined the Nazi call for boycott, and thus contributed to the stigmatization of Jews in Germany. Attempts made by Jewish individuals or by the Centralverein to withstand the Nazi boycott, e.g. by means of legal action, were relatively successful in the Weimar period and resulted in minor successes even in the early Nazi period, but they were unable to stop it. Describes the psychological pressure used by the Nazis to gain popular support for the boycott, as well as the boycott movement in the Franconian town of Neustadt an der Aisch, which had been regarded as a "Nazi town" even before the Nazi takeover.
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