Life_under_Siege_The_Jews_of_Magdeburg_under_Nazi_Rule.pdf

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On 25 September 1935, the Reich Minister for Trade and Commerce requested
that ‘non-Aryans’ be excluded from all markets as merchants and as clients. 24 On
11 November 1935, complaints were made at the number of Jewish commercial
agents still representing ‘Aryan’ enterprises in Magdeburg and the assistance of
the police was sought to rectify the situation. Another complaint was made that
local farmers were still selling to Jewish cattle and horse dealers and that this
situation had to be addressed. 25 The local authorities were determined to remove
Jews from these areas and curtail any further interaction. The repeated reference
made about ‘non-Aryans’ in the correspondence adds a racial component to the
directive, in addition to the economic exclusion, which is obvious.
This sentiment of absolute segregation is further evidenced in a directive from
the office of the State Police for the Merseburg District on 9 December 1935
concerning the local Jüdische Winterhilfe. 26 The memorandum indicated that the
Winterhilfe was purely an internal matter for the Jews and under no circumstances
would any form of public advertising of it be tolerated. The only exception
granted was the use of advertising posters within the buildings of Jewish
organisations and synagogues. Otherwise, all breaches of this were to be reported
and registered. 27 From the end of 1935, the introduction and application of new
policies and measures designed to segregate, to humiliate and demonise Jews in
all avenues of life was expedited. This campaign in public was very important
and Joseph Walk, “Reactions of the Jewish Press in Germany to the Nuremberg
Laws,” in Bankier, ed., op. cit., pp. 329–338.
24
Betr.: Marktverkehr, 25. September 1935, Bestand Z.-Dok.001, Signatur Nr. 038,
ASGM, p. 1.
25
Betr: Polizeiliche Eingriffe in Dienstverträge mit Nichtariern, 11. November 1935,
Bestand Rep. C 20 I. I b, Signatur Nr. 1, LHASA MD, op. cit., pp. 168–169.
26
Betrifft: Jüdische Winterhilfe, 9. Dezember 1935, Collection JM, File 10624, YVA,
op. cit., p. 99.
27
Ibid.