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training of Jewish health professionals to specifically treat Jews only was
approved by the authorities in June 1938. 97
Confirmation of the city’s perception of the Jewish threat to public safety is
confirmed in correspondence to the provincial government concerning arrests in
the city. Correspondence from 21 June 1938 indicated that for the period from and
including 13 June 1938 to 18 June 1938 the police arrested twenty-one Jews and
seventy-seven ‘asocials,’ all of whom were transported to either Buchenwald
Concentration Camp or Sachsenhausen Concentration Camp. 98 By this point in
time, Jews were completely segregated from the non-Jewish community. They
were prohibited from most public venues and were scorned or at best ignored at
those few remaining areas still open to them, the most obvious being shops. As a
result, they developed their own internal network of services. By November 1938
simply being identified in public as a Jew posed serious potential dangers.
From the months preceding the introduction of the Nuremberg Laws up until
the pogrom of November 1938 the burden of everyday life in the public domain
increased manifestly as exclusion of Jews from all public venues became
complete. The compounding influence of the public vilification of the Jews also
added to the strain of day-to-day living. The simultaneous campaigns of
demonisation and segregation led to complete ostracism and humiliation. Daily
life went on, but, Jews only ventured into the public domain when it was
absolutely necessary, and even when doing so they attempted to remain invisible.
97 Zulassung nichtdeutschblütiger Personen zur staatlichen Prüfung als
Krankenpfleger(in) und für verwandte Berufe, 11. April 1938, Bestand Arch.,
Signatur Nr. 002, ASGM, pp. 2–5.
98 Betrifft: Vorbeugende Verbrechensbekämpfung, 21. Juni 1938, Bestand Rep. C 20
I. I b, Signatur Nr. 1839, LHASA MD, p. 160.