this date in German and Jewish history: Government Law Officially Forces Jews Out of Economic Life in Germany

this date in German and Jewish history: Government Law Officially Forces Jews Out of Economic Life in Germany

November 12, 1938: "Nazi Germany issues the Decree on the Elimination of Jews from Economic Life prohibiting Jews from selling goods and services or working in a trade, totally segregating Jews from the German economy." -Wikipedia

After organizing street violence against Jews in the 1920s, boycotting Jewish-owned businesses in 1933, purging Jewish citizens from the civil service, universities, and professions, establishing concentration camps to imprison political opponents and Jews without trial, passing the 1935 Nuremberg Laws to strip German Jews of their citizenship and outlaw marriage between Jews and non-Jews, forcing the registration and confiscation of Jewish property, and orchestrating the violent Kristallnacht pogroms across Germany and Austria on November 9–10, 1938 (burning synagogues, looting thousands of businesses, murdering dozens of Jews, and arresting roughly 30,000 Jewish men), the Nazi regime escalated its persecution by systematically forcing Jews from any remaining livelihood:

"On November 12, 1938, the German government issued the Decree on the Elimination of the Jews from Economic Life (Verordnung zur Ausschaltung der Juden aus dem deutschen Wirtschaftsleben). The decree barred Jews from operating retail stores and mail-order businesses, as well as from engaging in a trade. The law also forbade Jews from selling goods or services at markets, trade fairs, and exhibitions. This decree was one of many that the Nazi regime enacted in the aftermath of the nationwide anti-Jewish riot known as Kristallnacht. Combined, these laws and decrees almost completely removed Jews from German economic and social life." -United States Holocaust Memorial Museum

In the years that followed, this total economic and social exclusion escalated into forced emigration, mandatory wearing of the yellow Star of David, confinement in overcrowded ghettos across Nazi-occupied Europe, mass shootings by mobile killing squads (Einsatzgruppen), and ultimately the industrialized genocide of six million Jews in extermination camps during the Holocaust.

Neveloth - The Forgotten Casualties (ft. Oren Balbus)