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To these measures were added initiatives which were
more or less local and occasionally private. Exclusions were decreed from
various occupations having to do with public service (for example, that of
doctor employed by the Social Security); certain employers laid off their
Jewish employees, (4) sometimes under
pressure from the Party. Jewish schoolchildren and students were prevented from
sitting for certain examinations. As for Jews in the economy, no general rules
restrained their economic activity. But the anti Jewish policy of the regime
created worry and uncertainty among the Jewish people, an insecurity which
sometimes encouraged them to sell their belongings at a loss. Certain non-Jews
took advantage of this. (5)
Finally, the psychological climate of scornful hatred with regard to
the Jew was marked by vexing prohibitions (6) decreed locally to close public places and prohibit use
of public equipment "to Jews and dogs". The Nazi authorities played down this
point in anticipation of the Olympic Games which were to be held in Berlin in
the summer of 1936. But his attenuation was temporary (CDXXXVII-45).
Thus Hitler's regime humiliated the Jews, but (except for uncontrolable
[sic] incidents) without violence. As Hitler proclaimed on March 27, 1933, on
calling for the boycott: "Not one hair of the Jews will be twisted." The Jewish
population, transformed into a body foreign to the nation, could still live by
collaborating with it: the Jews were not excluded from the economy and in
addition even a man such as Goebbels tolerated a few of them in cultural
affairs. A number of the most distinguished professions remained open to them.
The prohibition to practice medicine dates from July 1938 and that to practice
law from September of the same year.
The most striking blow cast
against the German Jews between 1933 and 1938 was the promulgation of the two
laws adopted in Nuremberg by the Reichstag meeting during the Congress of the
Party in September 1935. It is a question of the legal and dishonoring
alienation of the German Jew from his non Jewish fellow citizens. The law on
citizenship enacted on September 15, 1935, established the difference between
the German citizen, endowed with civil rights, and the dependent of the Reich,
who did not possess these rights. A second law of the same date forbade
marriage and sexual relations between a Jew and a person of German or related
blood. The law transformed the Jews into a group of outcasts in the midst of
the German people since it was entitled "Defense of the German Blood and
Honour."
Before November 1938, the Jews (aside from those of Austria
annexed to the Reich in March 1938) were not reduced by the regulations to a
miserable life of inactivity. Nevertheless, their condition of pariahs little
by little weakened the foundation of their existence and plunged them
progressively into misery and disarray. We may cite the report presented in
July 1938 by the Jewish communities of Vienna and of the Reich at the
Conference of Evian. This conference was attended by reprensentatives [sic] of
thirty two states meeting to discuss the possibilities
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