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Advocates of the Doomed: the refugee crisis of the 1930s in light of American and international refugee policy

33rd Annual Yom HaShoah / Holocaust Remembrance Day exhibit

Early Nazi Oppression

The photo of two Storm Troopers "marking" a Jewish business during the Nazi party boycott of Jewish businesses which began in April, 1933, after Hitler became Chancellor of Germany. 

https://encyclopedia.ushmm.org/content/en/article/boycott-of-jewish-businesses 

The sign reads:  "Germans! Defend yourselves! Don't buy from Jews!" Berlin, Germany, April 1, 1933

 

 


 

Law for the Restoration of the Professional Civil Service

Immediately after the economic boycott began (April 1, 1933), the Nazi government instituted the Law for the Restoration of the Professional Civil Service which excluded Jews from all civil service positions

https://encyclopedia.ushmm.org/content/en/timeline-event/holocaust/1933-1938/law-for-the-restoration-of-the-professional-civil-service

Lat April brought legal restrictions on Jewish attendance at public schools and universities and in May, book burnings began.