Language:
English
Year of publication:
2004
Titel der Quelle:
Jewish Culture and History
Angaben zur Quelle:
7,1-2 (2004) 261-270
Keywords:
Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945)
;
Jews
Abstract:
After 1945 a myth emerged that Hamburg had been less receptive to Nazism and remained an island of "Hanseatic" liberalism amidst the sea of Nazi totalitarianism. In particular, it was asserted that the Nazi laws concerning the Jews were applied in the city only reluctantly and in a milder form. The facts and figures do not support these views. The events in Hamburg during the "Kristallnacht" pogrom were no different from those in the rest of the Reich. Proportionally, even more citizens, both Jewish and non-Jewish, were prosecuted for crimes labelled as "Rassenschande" in Hamburg than in Frankfurt and Köln. The "Aryanization" policies in Hamburg were lenient before 1937 because of the continuing economic slowdown in the city; from 1937 they followed the same pattern as the rest of Germany.
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