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Prewar Germany
Book chapter

Prewar Germany

Arthur B. Shostak
Stealth Altruism, pp 33-42
2017
DOI: https://doi.org/10.4324/9781315114460-5

Abstract

Forbidden Care Tikkun Olam Stealth Altruism British Mandate Palestine Inviolable Sanctuary War’s Start Rabid Antisemite Clothing Warehouses German Jewish Community Sobibor Death Camp Jewish Youngsters High Risk Model Hitler Berlin Jewish Community Adolf Hitler German Jews Jewish Tombstones Effective Altruism Kaiser’s Army Yom HaShoah WWI Veteran Auschwitz Birkenau Death Camp Zionist Youth Movement Hitler’s Writings Plague Spreaders
After the 1935 Nuremburg Laws deprived German Jews of both their citizenship and their status as fellow human beings, Jewish youngsters were banned from attending German school. A German Jewish Cultural Association developed hundreds of art exhibitions, concerts, literary lectures, plays, and so forth to provide a small payroll for many jobless Jewish artists. German Jews who remained in the Fatherland turned to one another for altruistic support, at first overt, but soon of the stealth variety. German people suffered during a worldwide economic crisis, and antisemites were quick to allege that Jews, especially if Communists or Socialists, were somehow complicit in causing runaway inflation and ruinous unemployment. On November 12, 1938, the German Government levied a huge "expiation" fine on the Jewish population for damages caused by Kristallnacht. This made it impossible for a German Jew to get insurance reimbursement for actual damages to his or her property.

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