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On December 5, 1933, three states voted to repeal Prohibition, putting the ratification of the 21st Amendment into place. But did Prohibition really end on that fateful day? Five interesting facts ...
The boycott began in March 1933 in both Europe and the US and continued until the entry of the US into the war on December 7, 1941. [13] [14] [15] By July 1933, the boycott had forced the resignation of the board of the Hamburg America Line. German imports to the US were reduced by nearly a quarter compared with the prior year, and the impact ...
SA paramilitaries outside a Berlin store posting signs with: "Deutsche!Wehrt Euch! Kauft nicht bei Juden!" ("Germans!Defend yourselves! Don't buy from Jews!"). The Nazi boycott of Jewish businesses (German: Judenboykott) in Germany began on April 1, 1933, and was claimed to be a defensive reaction to the anti-Nazi boycott, [1] [2] which had been initiated in March 1933. [3]
Book burning in Berlin, 10 May 1933 Examples of books burned by the Nazis on display at Yad Vashem. The Nazi book burnings were a campaign conducted by the German Student Union (German: Deutsche Studentenschaft, DSt) to ceremonially burn books in Nazi Germany and Austria in the 1930s.
Police raid in the Scheunenviertel (Berlin 1933). Residents of a house on Grenadier-Street are searched for weapons, and have their permits checked. Immediately following the "Machtergreifung" in 1933, the weapon laws of the Weimar Republic were used to disarm Jews, or to use the excuse of "searching for weapons" as a justification for raids and searches of homes.
Plaque at Bebelplaz commemorating Nazi book burning, 10 May 1933. Among the thousands of books burned on Berlin's Opernplatz in 1933, following the Nazi raid on the Institut für Sexualwissenschaft, were works by one of the most iconic individuals ever to write in the German language, the German Jewish Romantic poet Heinrich Heine (1797–1856
Mar 31, 1933 A decree in the city of Berlin said that Jewish doctors were suspended from the city's charity services. [29] Apr 7, 1933 Law for the Restoration of the Professional Civil Service: This law removed many Jews from government service: until 1935, the law had an exemption for German Jews who had fought for Germany during World War I ...
5 March – German federal election, March 1933: National Socialists gain 43.9% of the votes. 8 March – Nazis occupy the Bavarian State Parliament and expel deputies. 12 March – Hindenburg bans the flag of the republic and orders the Imperial and Nazi flag to fly side by side. 15 March – Hitler proclaims the Third Reich.