The first formal act of discrimination by the Nazis was a ban on the employment of most Jews in the public sector (April 1933). This included the dismissal of Jews already in the public sector, and this included schools and universities.
However, in March 1933 the police had already ceased to protect Jews from being beaten up by stormtroopers.
Really, the force behind it was the Nazi Party, but after World War 1 postcards in the old Austro-Hungary empire showed a 'stab in the back' cartoon, which had a Jew stabbing a German soldier in the back. This blamed the Jews for losing the first world war.
The Nazi regime, 1933-45.
It could be both - Jewish names and German names are often similar and it could be that your ancestors were both Jewish and German (Jews living in Germany).
The family name Kaminsky can be German, Jewish or German-Jewish in origin.
No of course not. Hitler wasn't Jewish to begin with and ppl called him crazy based on his actions not him being German.
No his mother was a German. NOT JEWISH.
They were blamed for bringing the plague*
While discrimination surely existed it never had government sanction. ___ Eh? In the years 1933-39 Canada admitted only 8,000 refugees (Jewish and non-Jewish) from Nazi Germany ... This was a government decision and earned Canada a reputation for callousness and antisemitism at the time.
To take away the rights of German Jews
Anti-semetic youths are those who discriminate against Jews and people of the Jewish faith.
The short answer was that they were not. The German government wanted to portray an image that he German civilians were rising up in a popular movement against the Jews, but this was not the case, the anti-Jewish actions of that night were mainly carried out by agents of the Nazis.
If they didn't follow Nazi's instruction they would be prosecuted.
The name Wertz can be German, Jewish or German-Jewish.
The Nazi regime, 1933-45.
In April 1933 most Jews and people of Jewish origin were dismissed from employment in the public sector. In fact, these dismissals were the Nazi regime's first measure against Jews.
At one point the Nazi government of Germany required that all German Jewish men take the middle name of "Isaac" and all German Jewish women take the middle name of "Sarah."
could not marry a German could not own property could no serve in the German military
Yes, just as there are people of French Jewish and Russian Jewish descent. A term like German Jewish descent implies that the ancestors were Jewish and were from German cultural regions in Europe.