What the Nazis believed about Jews and what actions they took

  • Boycott of Jewish shops and businesses

    Jews banned from working as teachers and judges. The SA stand outside Jewish shops, cafés and businesses to prevent customers from entering, and paint Jude on their windows.
  • Jews banned from being members of the armed forces

  • The Nuremberg Laws

    Jews didn't have the right to be German citizens. Not allowed to marry Aryans
  • Jews banned from working as doctors and dentists

  • Jews banned from being journalists

  • Jews not allowed to say "Heil Hitler"

  • ID cards for Jews

  • Jews forced to use Jewish forenames such as Israel and Sara

  • Kristallnacht (the Night of Broken Glass)

    On the 9th and 10th of November the Nazis destroyed 7,500 Jewish shop windows, burned 400 synagogues and arrested 30,000 Jews and sent them to concentration camps. This was Kristallnacht (the Night of Broken Glass). The Jews were forced to pay for all the damage. Following this event, the Jews knew that Hitler wouldn't stop until he had destroyed them.
  • Jews forced to sell their businesses

  • Hitler's speech in the Reichstag

    Hitler announced: "If the international Jewish financiers inside and outside Europe should succeed in plunging the nations once more into a world war, then the outcome will not be the victory of Jewry, but rather the annihilation of the Jewish race in Europe!"
  • Jews forced to give their metals and jewels to the Nazis