History 317 Lecture--An Attitude in Search of a Policy

 

Outline

            - January-March, 1933:  violence without direction

            - April Boycott

            - German Jewish reaction

            - Bureaucracy purge

            - School Law

                    - Anti-Semitic Propaganda (for children 2, 3, 4)

                    - popular anti-Semitism:  street signs

            - Interlude

                        - January 1935 Saar plebiscite (1)

              -  Olympics (USHMM On-line exhibition on the Berlin Olympics)

            - Bureaucratic infighting

            - Nuremberg Laws; Table of Nuremberg Laws

            - Emigration and its Dilemmas

                        - Palestine and Ha'avara

                        - Difficulties

Expulsion:  Eichmann and the Austrian model

Kristallnacht

 

Jewish Emigration from Germany, 1933-1938

Year                 Number of Emigrants         Total Since 1933

1933                     37,000                              37,000

1934                     23,000                              60,000

1935                     21,000                              81,000

1936                     25,000                             106,000

1937                     23,000                             129,000

1938 (1st 6 mos.) 20,000                             149,000