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An SA member instructs others where to post anti-Jewish boycott signs on a commercial street in Germany. [LCID: 73811]
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Boycotts

Boycotting was prevalent during Holocaust (1933-1945). Nazi officials organized boycotts of Jewish businesses and encouraged Germans to observe them. Opponents of the Nazis abroad considered boycotts to protest Nazi policy, including a potential boycott of the Berlin Olympics in 1936. Explore more content surrounding boycotts during the Nazi rule. 

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Germans in front of Jewish-owned department store in Berlin, anti-Jewish boycott. Berlin, Germany, April 1, 1933.
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Anti-Jewish Boycott
During the anti-Jewish boycott, an SA man stands outside a Jewish-owned store with a sign demanding that Germans not buy from Jews. [LCID: 4053]
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Anti-Jewish boycott
A display window with four female mannequins in different dresses. A large boycott sign is pasted on the glass in both English and German.
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Anti-Jewish boycott poster in Berlin
Media Essay
Antisemitism (Abridged Article) - Photograph
A large chart of family trees in German. These charts are made of circles in various colors that would help determine someone’s racial membership according to the law.
Article
"Aryanization"
Germans in front of Jewish-owned department store in Berlin, anti-Jewish boycott. Berlin, Germany, April 1, 1933.
Article
Boycott of Jewish Businesses
Three uniformed Storm Troopers with light skin tone stand in front of a closed shop. The soldier in the center holds a boycott sign in German, while another sign hangs from the gates covering the shop entrance. The soldier to the right appears to be speaking to a feminine figure with light skin tone in dark clothes.
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Boycott of Jewish-owned businesses
Sign on truck carrying Storm Troopers (SA) urges "Germans! [LCID: 19599]
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Boycott sign
Jewish store during the anti-Jewish boycott. Frankfurt, Germany, April 1, 1933. [LCID: 60505d]
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Damaged Jewish-owned store
Two German Jewish families at a gathering before the war. [LCID: 08488]
Article
Jews in Prewar Germany
Joseph Goebbels, the Nazi minister of propaganda, speaks at a rally in favor of the boycott of Jewish-owned shops. [LCID: 44203]
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Joseph Goebbels at a rally in favor of the boycott of Jewish-owned shops
SA men in front of Jewish-owned store urge a boycott with the signs reading "Germans! [LCID: 66300b]
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Members of the SA during boycott of Jewish-owned businesses
Poster (issued by the Jewish War Veterans of the United States) calling for a boycott of German goods. [LCID: 89404]
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Poster calling for a boycott of German goods
An SA member instructs others where to post anti-Jewish boycott signs on a commercial street in Germany. [LCID: 73811]
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SA members post anti-Jewish boycott signs
During the anti-Jewish boycott, SA men carry banners which read "Germans! [LCID: 12359]
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SA men with banners during the anti-Jewish boycott
A large group of people line up in front of a long banner featuring German text. The group consists of what appears to be men of all ages, including school age children. Several of them are holding bicycles.
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Scene during the anti-Jewish boycott

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