History Unfolded: US Newspapers and the Holocaust

Headline: Boycott Opens In Germany
Sub-Headline: Report Many Stores Remain Open

Publication Date: Saturday, April 1, 1933
Historical Event: Nazis Boycott Jewish Businesses
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Article Type: News Article
Newspaper: Daily Advertiser
Location: Lafayette, Louisiana
Page Section and Number: 1
Author/Byline: AP
Article Text: BERLIN. April 1. (AP)—Many Jewish stores remained open after the nationwide boycott on their business began at 10 a. m. this morning, despite anti-Semitic signs posted on their show windows by enthusiastic young Nazi storm troops.

Ten big Berlin department stores and the Tietz Chain Stores, which alone employ 48,000 persons throughout Germany, remained closed, however. The great majority of the Tietz employes are Gentiles.

That even among the Christian population the boycott measure does not meet with unqualified approval was indicated by excited groups assembling before many stores, debating the measure.

Stores like Wertheims and Kempinski's were more crowded late yesterday than during the Christmas season by persons laying in stock for boycott days they feared would come.

Brown shirted Nazis busily moved to and fro, pasting signs of identification on Jewish stores, standing guard or picketing before shops and driving through streets in motor cars, displaying boycott signs.

On many public squares and market halls, the Nazi brass bands made the air reverberate with snappy military marches. The Nazi Swastika and Imperial flags were displayed on all street cars.

Shops, whose owners were Nazi party members, flew especially large Swastika banners.

Not only business streets but certain residence streets, where Jewish lawyers and physicians were knowrn to reside, became targets for Nazi attention.

Before numerous residences along Kaiserallee and Kurfuerstendamm, for instance, picketers warned against invoking Jewish legal and medical aid.

Picketers were reinforced before court buildings to prevent any Jewish attorneys or judges from entering.

Before the courthouse of the Berlin borough of Schoeneberg, the Nazis burned the Republican flag as a crowd sang Nazi songs.

In some parts of the city, so-called propaganda marches started through the business streets. Not only the storm troops, but many Nazi working girls and clerks participated. They carried signs such as "Germans shun Jewish physicians and lawyers and "boycott—

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