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The Anti-Jewish Boycott: Photographs

(1933 - 1935)

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  • SA men in front of Jewish-owned store in Berlin urge boycott. Signs read: "Germans! Defend Yourselves! Don't buy from Jews!"
  • Sign: "Help liberate Germany from Jewish capital. Don't buy in Jewish stores."
  • Sign used during the anti-Jewish boycott: "Help liberate Germany from Jewish capital. Don't buy in Jewish stores."
  • SA men picket Jewish-owned business during the boycott in Berlin, Germany.
  • Boycott poster in Berlin, Germany.
  • Jewish store during the anti-Jewish boycott in Frankfurt, Germany.
  • SA men distribute leaflets during the anti-Jewish boycott in Berlin, Germany.
  • Joseph Goebbels, Nazi minister of propaganda, speaks at a rally in favor of the anti-Jewish boycott in Berlin, Germany.
  • Nazi official Julius Streicher, founder of the antisemitic journal "Der Stuermer," organized the anti-Jewish boycott.
  • SA men with boycott signs block the entrance to a Jewish-owned shop. One sign reads: "Germans! Defend yourselves! Don't buy from Jews!"
  • Sign on a Jewish-owned store during the boycott in Berlin, Germany
  • SA members guard the entrance to a Jewish-owned leather-goods shop. The sign reads "No respectable German shops here!"
  • Three Jewish businessmen are forced to march down a crowded Leipzig street while carrying signs reading: "Don't buy from Jews; Shop in German businesses!"

Sources: Photos courtesy of the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum; National Archives; Bildarchiv Preussischer Kulturbesitz; Bayerische Staatsbibliothek; Institut fuer Stadtgeschichte Frankfurt am Main