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Jews Fined $400,000,000 For Murder of Vom Rath
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- Decrees Ban Business And Entertainment
- Publication Date
- Saturday, November 12, 1938
- Historical Event
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Anti-Jewish Riots Convulse German Reich (Kristallnacht)
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- Berlin—(AP)—Jews were assessed today 1,000,000,000 marks—$400,-000,000—as a penalty for the murder of Ernst Vom Rath, German diplomat in Paris, it was announced officially.
Field Marshal Hermann Wilhelm Goering, as director of Germany's four-year-plan, issued a decree, effective Jan. 1, prohibiting Jews from conducting retail businesses, mail order and commission houses and independent handicraft enterprises.
How Germany's remaining 500,000 Jews will raise the 1,000,000,000 marks was not disclosed.
The fine was assessed in the decree issued by Goering.
Goering's decree further banned Jews from heading any industrial or commercial concern by forbidding them to hold the position of "betriebsfuehrer," which every factory or similar undertaking must have under the national labor law.
At the same time, semiofficial sources said that 1,600 Jews had been arrested in Berlin alone.
MANY OTHERS SEIZED
These sources said it was impossible to estimate how many other Jews had been seized in the rest of Germany since the killing of Vom Rath, secretary of the German embassy in Paris, which incited nationwide burnings of synagogues and destruction of Jewish stores Thursday.
Another decree, issued by Propaganda Minister Paul Joseph Goebbels, ordered Jews excluded from theaters, movie houses, concerts and other public presentations.
These far-reaching measures toward isolating Jews from German national life were issued after a meeting of Goering, Goebbels, Interior Minister Dr. Wilhelm Frick, Justice Minister Dr. Franz Guertner, Economics Minister Walther Funk and Finance Minister Lutz Schwerin-Krosigk.
MUST PAY FOR DAMAGE
An official announcement said they assembled to "deliberate up on solution of the Jewish question which has become urgently necessary."
"Further decisive measures for elimination of Jewry from German economic life and for prevention of provocatory conditions," the announcement added, "will be issued within the shortest time by decrees and laws."
Jews, it was decided, must pay for all damage to Jewish property "occasioned by the indignation of the people over incitement by
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Bibliography
Gilbert, Martin. Kristallnacht: Prelude to Destruction. New York: HarperCollins, 2006.
Pehle, Walter H., ed. November 1938: From "Reichskristallnacht" to Genocide. New York: Berg, 1991.
Read, Anthony. Kristallnacht: The Nazi Night of Terror. New York: Times Books, 1989.
Schwab, Gerald. The Day the Holocaust Began: The Odyssey of Herschel Grynszpan. New York: Praeger, 1990.
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