505,000 Jews in Germany in 1933 - most lived in urban areas.
1933 they became 'Untermenschen' = the sub humans.
1934, forbidden from taking legal exams.
Buses,trains atec. had to sit on seats labelled for them.
April 1933, The German boxing assocation banned all jewish boxers.
22nd september, jews excluded from The reich chamber of commerce.
march 1934, jewish actors were banned from performing on stage or screen.
22nd, jews could no longer take law examinations.
The Nuremburg Laws put Jews to the second class status - both signed by Hitler.
1st law - citizenship of the Reich only belong to a German. 2nd law - jews defined as being those of not German blood.
After, Nuremburg laws, violence against Jews began in earnest.
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between 1933 - 1939, 250,000 Jews left Germany.
1936//7 - the professional activities were prohibited e.g. teachers/nurses/dentists.
1936 - Berlin olympic games, open violence to Jews was suspended.
1937, Heydrich said that jewish women who had sex with germans were to be sent to concentration camps.
1938 - male jews were ordered to add the name 'Israel' and female jews were ordered to add 'sara' to their non-jewish names.
April 1938 - all Jews to register all their wealth exceeding a value of 5,000 marks.
November - jews had to pay a collective fine of 1.25 thousand million marks in pay for the voilence suring Kristallnacht.
What Germans heard in newspapers and heard on their radios was contolled by the government - the burning books written by Jews etc.
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'Propaganda tries to force a doctrine on the whole people...Propaganda works on the general public form teh stadnpoint of an idea and meaks them ripe for the victorey' - Hitler Mein Kampf
Legislation or executive measures were taken against the jews e.g. proganda campaigns created to make an atmosphere of voilence epecially in 1935 and 1938.
Real and percieved discrimination against ethnic Germans in east eupoean nations were the subject of nazi propaganda.
Newspapers presented Germany as the 'defender' of the western culture.
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Films played an important part in discriminating the jews - it portrayed the jews as 'subhuman' creatures liviung off Germany's society.
The Eternal Jew - was an attempt to prepare people for the final soultion.
Some films glorified Hitler and Germany instead by promoting the national pride in the Nazi regmie sucesses.
1.100 films were produced by 1944, which were watched by 1,000 million Germans per year.
Press, end of 1933 - there were 4,700 publications a day of varyig sizes.
The Nazi owned 'Volische Beobachter' had circulation of 127,000 but after it got took over, circulation had reached 1,192,500.
Der Sturmer - 1934 - 65,000 copies 1937 - 500,000.
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Radio - 1933 4.5 out of 20 million households. 1942, 16 million out of 23 million houses had radios.
Music - jewish composers and themes were removed and banned e.g. Mendelssohn.
Theatre - the attendances at the 197 theatres doubled in the years to 1942.
Nazis developed the Thingspiel - open air events which combined military tattoos and circus performances including the hitler youth and sa battalions.
In 1936, festivel of youth had a cast of 10,000 and attracted large audiences.
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