Language:
German
Year of publication:
1990
Titel der Quelle:
Geschichte in Wissenschaft und Unterricht
Angaben zur Quelle:
41,3 (1990) 129-144
Keywords:
Jews History 1933-1939
;
National socialism Philosophy
;
Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945)
Abstract:
Early Nazi anti-Jewish legislation was the product of a coalition of the traditional right with the Nazis and, as a concession to Hindenburg, exempted Jewish war veterans and others from its provisions. Jews thus could not be blamed for retaining some illusions as to their continuing rights under the new regime. The Nuremberg Laws of 1935 put an end to these illusions when they deprived Jews of citizenship. The courts regularly ruled against them in civil as well as criminal cases. In 1936 a court nullified a contract because the Jewish partner was no longer recognized as a legal person. This legal "death" was the prologue to the physical death of the Jews of Germany. For many Jews, however, the estrangement of friends and associates brought home their exclusion from German life more than any action by the regime.
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