History Unfolded: US Newspapers and the Holocaust

Headline: Germany Commences Boycott Against All Jewish People Today
Sub-Headline: Ban to Last for 24 Hours

Publication Date: Saturday, April 1, 1933
Historical Event: Nazis Boycott Jewish Businesses
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Article Type: News Article
Newspaper: The Marion Star
Location: Marion, Ohio
Page Section and Number: 1
Author/Byline: AP
Article Text: Will Be Renewed, However, Government Warns, Unless Atrocity Campaign Ceases.

ONLY ADDS TO SUFFERING

Jews Are Already Virtually Ostracized Socially and Professionally.

By The Associated Press

BERLIN, April 1— A one-day boycott on the means of livelihood of all Jews in Germany began at 10 a. m. today.

German stores union issued an appeal to all members coming under the boycott ban to close their stores for the day.

Brown-shirted Nazis with buckets of paint tramped through Berlin's business section, stopping at each shop run by a Jew and splashing across the show window a sign Identifying the place. At their heels followed holiday crowds.

Each time the brown shirts stopped to hang up a placard crowds clustered about them. "That's right," they said, "freeze them out, and then we'll take over their shops."

There had been no disorder anywhere up to the end of the afternoon. There were few Jews to be seen, but the rest of the populace seemed to accept the situation in picnic spirit.

Nazi headquarters prescribed a black placard with a splash of yellow paint to designate Jewish shops, but the boycotters used their imagination.

Many Shops Open
The black and yellow "quarantine" sign was frequently seen, but there were others reading, "Danger—Jew store," and "Attention—beware the Jew," with a red skill and crossbones scrawled below the warnIng.

On several Jewish shops the Nazis hung, placarde reading:

"If traitor you would be, chase from the Jewery." Many Jewish shops remained open despite the signs on their windows. By government order the boycott ends tonight.

Dr. Joseph Goebbels, cabinet minister of propaganda, keynoted the campaign with a warning that unless "the foreign atrocity campaign ceases absolutely" the boycott will be resumed next Wednesday. He promised, however, a free turn to normal if this condition was fulfilled.

A government order shrank the National Socialist party's proposed indefinite boycott to one day's duration for the time being and It remained to be seen which of opposing groups in the government and party would be victorious in the end, Only small comfort was derivable from the present limitations for half million distracted Ger-

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