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Deutsch: Judenboykott April 1933
  • Boykott der Nationalsozialisten gegen jüdische Geschäfte in Deutschland; SA-Mitgliedern; Schaufenster eines Berliner jüdischen Geschäfts; Schilder/Plakat mit Aufschrift; Deutsche! Wehrt Euch! Kauft nicht bei Juden!; Deutsche, verteidigt Euch gegen die jüdische Greuelpropaganda, kauft nur bei Deutschen! Germans defend yourselves against Jewish atrocity propganda; buy only at German shops!; NS-Propaganda
  • Bundesarchiv: Boykott-Aktion gegen jüdische Geschäfte, Berlin 1.4.1933; Berlin.- Boykott der Nationalsozialisten gegen jüdische Geschäfte in Deutschland, SA-Mitglieder beim Tragen eines Schilds mit der Aufschrift "Deutsche! Wehrt euch! Kauft nicht bei Juden!", im Hintergrund Plakat mit der Aufschrift "Deutsche, verteidigt euch gegen die jüdische Greuelpropaganda, kauft nur bei Deutschen!" auf Deutsch und Englisch


English: In April 1933, the National Socialists in NSDAP initiated an anti-Jewish/anti-Semitic boycott against Jewish shops and businesses in Germany. This early labeling and harassment of Jewish-owned businesses were stark examples of the discrimination and persecution of Germany's Jewish population 1933–1945 and an important step on the way to the later enactment of anti-Semitic laws in Nazi Germany 1933–1945 and ultimately the Holocaust in Europe.
  • Nazi propaganda photo of three uniformed members of the SA (Sturmabteilung), the paramilitary 'brown shirts' of the Nazi Party, demonstrating and protesting against Jewish-owned business in Berlin on April 1, 1933.
The picture depicts storm troopers standing in front of the closed entrance to the Tietz departement store, with campaign signboards/placards/posters with Anti-Jewish slogans printed in Fraktur typeface: Deutsche! Wehrt Euch! Kauft nicht bei Juden! (Germans! Protect yourselves! Don't buy from Jews!' ) and Deutsche, verteidigt Euch gegen die jüdische Greuelpropaganda, kauft nur bei Deutschen! Germans defend yourselves against Jewish atrocity propganda; buy only at German shops!
In the Third Reich, all businesses of the Tietz family were Aryanized (i.e., seized from Jews and transferred to non-Jewish owners) and the family members emigrated. The Tietz department store was Aryanised in 1934
  • The Tietz department store in Berlin, founded by Hermann Tietz, became part of the renowned Hertie chain. Hermann Tietz, a Jewish businessman, financed the establishment of a textile retail store by his nephew Oscar Tietz in 1882. The business rapidly expanded, opening several stores across Germany and eventually moving its headquarters to Berlin. By the 1920s, the Tietz company was a major retail empire, including the famous Kaufhaus des Westens (KaDeWe). However, during the Nazi regime, the Tietz family was forced out of the business in 1933, and the company was taken over by non-Jewish management.
German History in Documents and Images (GHDI):
On April 1, 1933, during the boycott of Jewish shops called for by Goebbels, SA members eagerly posted boycott notices and planted themselves in front of Jewish shops to intimidate the owners and their customers. Even old, established businesses such as the Tietz department store were caught up in this action. Founded in 1882 by the German-Jewish businessman Hermann Tietz (1837–1907), it was the second largest department store in Berlin (after Wertheim). Another member of the Tietz family also founded the department store chain "Kaufhof."
One of the signs featured in this famous photograph conveys a message in both German and English: "Germans, defend yourselves against Jewish atrocity propaganda – buy only at German shops!" According to the Nazis, the boycott was a reaction to negative foreign (Jewish) press reports about the new regime. Here, both the word choice and the bilingual message reflect the so-called official justification for the boycott.
It was largely unsuccessful, as the German population continued to use Jewish businesses, but revealed the intent of the Nazis to undermine the viability of Jews in Germany. It was an early governmental action against the Jews of Germany by the new National Socialist government, which culminated in the "Final Solution". It was a state-managed campaign of ever-increasing harassment, arrests, systematic pillaging, forced transfer of ownership to Nazi Party activists (managed by the Chamber of Commerce, Industrie- und Handelskammer), and ultimately murder of Jewish business owners. In Berlin alone, there were 50,000 Jewish-owned businesses.
Already on March 28, the National Socialist Kampfbund for the Commercial Middle Class (Nationalsozialistischer Kampfbund für den gewerblichen Mittelstand), under Adrian von Renteln, had advanced and occupied or sealed off Jewish shops in Kiel, the Ruhr area, and in some cities in Brandenburg. On April 1, 1933, a Saturday, at 10 o'clock - in some places already the evening before - the actual boycott began. Uniformed, sometimes armed SA (Sturmabteilung), HJ (Hitler Youth), and Stahlhelm guards stood outside Jewish shops, medical practices, and law offices all over German cities, preventing potential customers from entering all day long. Signs and posters demanded: 'Germans! Defend yourselves! Don't buy from Jews! - The Jews are our misfortune! - Avoid Jewish doctors! - Don't go to Jewish lawyers!' (Deutsche! Wehrt euch! Kauft nicht bei(m) Juden! – Die Juden sind unser Unglück! – Meidet jüdische Ärzte! – Geht nicht zu jüdischen Rechtsanwälten!) Other uniformed members of the same groups spread these slogans with chants and loudspeaker vans in the streets.
  • Copy of photo from the National Digital Archives in Poland (Narodowe Archiwum Cyfrowe), published under a Public domain license, allowing copying, modification, distribution, and performance of the work, even for commercial purposes, without requiring permission.
Polski: Hitlerowski terror antyżydowski w Berlinie (1933-04);Członkowie oddziału szturmowego NSDAP z afiszami antyżydowskimi przed zamkniętym Domem Towarowym Tietza.
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Photo agency: The New York Times G.m.b.H. Bild-Dienst Wide World Photos Berlin SW 68 Kochstr. 28/29
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