Germans in front of Jewish-owned department store in Berlin, anti-Jewish boycott. Berlin, Germany, April 1, 1933.
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Boycott of Jewish Businesses

After Adolf Hitler came to power in Germany on January 30, 1933, the Nazi leadership decided to stage an economic boycott against the Jews of Germany. Local Nazi party chiefs organized the national boycott operation. Although it lasted only one day and was ignored by many individual Germans who continued to shop in Jewish-owned stores, it marked the beginning of a nationwide campaign by the Nazi Party against the entire German Jewish population.

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