File:Judenboykott 1933-04 Anti-Semitic Nazi boycott of Jewish businesses shops Berlin SA Sturmabteilung propaganda terror action Poster column billboard Kauft nicht bei Juden Sonnabden 10 Uhr Bedenkzeit Narodowe Archiwum Cyfrowe 3 1 0 17 124.jpg

English: In April 1933, the National Socialists in NSDAP initiated an anti-Jewish/anti-Semitic boycott against Jewish shops and businesses in Germany. This early labeling and harassment of Jewish-owned businesses were stark examples of the discrimination and persecution of Germany's Jewish population 1933–1945 and an important step on the way to the later enactment of anti-Semitic laws in Nazi Germany 1933–1945 and ultimately the Holocaust in Europe.

• Nazi propaganda photo of a Nazi propaganda poster with Anti-Jewish slogans urging boycott of Jewish-owned business in Berlin on April 1, 1933.

Three men in civilian hats and coats stand with their backs to the photographer in front of a billboard or advertising column (poster pillar). The main poster on the column reads as follows: "Until Saturday morning at 10 o'clock, Jewry has time to think! Then the struggle begins! The Jews of the whole world want to destroy Germany! German people! Defend yourself! Don't buy from Jews! Action Committee of the N.S.D.A.P. Gau Greater Berlin." (German in Fraktur typeface: Bis Sonnabend früh 10 Uhr hat das Judentum Bedenkzeit! Dann beginnt der Kampf! Die Juden aller Welt wollen Deutschland vernichten! Deutsches Volk! Wehr Dich! Kauf nicht beim Juden! Aktionskomitee der N.S.D.A.P. Gau Groß-Berlin)

Other posters on the display advertise cinema screenings and Easter trips, such as "Premiere The Lindenwirtin (...) Oscar Sabo at the Metropol-Theater from March 30th, daily at 8:15 pm; Sundays at 5 pm (...) The Land of Smiles," (German: Uraufführung Die Lindenwirtin (...) Oscar Sabo (...) Metropol-Theater Ab. 30. März Tägl. 8 1/4 Uhr (...) Sonntags nachm. 5 Uhr: Das Land des Lächelns); "Easter in Blossoms and Snow, Easter trip with special D-train to the Salzburg Alps from April 13th to 21st, 1933, RM 89 from Berlin" (Ostern in Blüten und Schnee Osterreise mit Sonder-D-Zug in die Salzburger Alpen vom 13. bis 21. April 1933 RM 89 ab Berlin); "Bavaria-Lichtspiele Friedrichstraße (...) Hente! Greta Garbo Today! Greta Garbo Menschen im Hotel (...)," and more.

• The Nazi boycott of Jewish businesses (German: Judenboykott) in Germany began on Saturday April 1, 1933, and was claimed to be a defensive reaction to the international anti-Nazi boycott, which had been initiated in March 1933.

It was largely unsuccessful, as the German population continued to use Jewish businesses, but revealed the intent of the Nazis to undermine the viability of Jews in Germany. It was an early governmental action against the Jews of Germany by the new National Socialist government, which culminated in the "Final Solution". It was a state-managed campaign of ever-increasing harassment, arrests, systematic pillaging, forced transfer of ownership to Nazi Party activists (managed by the Chamber of Commerce, Industrie- und Handelskammer), and ultimately murder of Jewish business owners. In Berlin alone, there were 50,000 Jewish-owned businesses.

Already on March 28, the National Socialist Kampfbund for the Commercial Middle Class (Nationalsozialistischer Kampfbund für den gewerblichen Mittelstand), under Adrian von Renteln, had advanced and occupied or sealed off Jewish shops in Kiel, the Ruhr area, and in some cities in Brandenburg. On April 1, 1933, a Saturday, at 10 o'clock - in some places already the evening before - the actual boycott began. Uniformed, sometimes armed SA (Sturmabteilung), HJ (Hitler Youth), and Stahlhelm guards stood outside Jewish shops, medical practices, and law offices all over German cities, preventing potential customers from entering all day long. Signs and posters demanded: 'Germans! Defend yourselves! Don't buy from Jews! - The Jews are our misfortune! - Avoid Jewish doctors! - Don't go to Jewish lawyers!' (Deutsche! Wehrt euch! Kauft nicht bei(m) Juden! – Die Juden sind unser Unglück! – Meidet jüdische Ärzte! – Geht nicht zu jüdischen Rechtsanwälten!) Other uniformed members of the same groups spread these slogans with chants and loudspeaker vans in the streets.

• See Footage of SA activists shouting anti-Jewish slogans, etc. (vimeo.com), Nazi Germany Stages Jewish Boycott - 1933 (British Movietone report/newsreel on Youtube), Joseph Goebbels' propaganda speech on the Anti-Jewish boycott (archive.org), etc.

• Copy of photo from the National Digital Archives in Poland (Narodowe Archiwum Cyfrowe), published under a Public domain license, allowing copying, modification, distribution, and performance of the work, even for commercial purposes, without requiring permission.