Knowra Nazi persecution of Jews Nazi persecution of Jews Nazi persecution of Jews was the escalating system of legal discrimination, dispossession, violence, and deportation imposed by Nazi Germany and its collaborators before and during the Holocaust.
Nuremberg Laws : A set of 1935 German laws that stripped Jews of citizenship and prohibited marriage between Jews and people classified as German-blooded. They made racial exclusion a foundation of state law.
Nazi racial ideology : The Nazi worldview that ranked people by supposed biological race and cast Jews as a racial enemy. It supplied the rationale for defining Jews as targets regardless of religious practice.
Reinhard Heydrich : A senior Nazi security official who coordinated police repression and played a central role in organizing the Holocaust. He helped coordinate the state and police apparatus behind anti-Jewish measures.
Boycott of Jewish businesses in Nazi Germany : The nationwide Nazi-organized boycott of Jewish-owned shops and professionals on April 1, 1933. It was an early public demonstration of the regime’s campaign of exclusion.
The Holocaust : The genocide of six million Jews by Nazi Germany and its collaborators during World War II. The persecution culminated in the Holocaust, the systematic murder of Europe’s Jews.
Kristallnacht : The antisemitic pogrom of November 9–10, 1938, when synagogues, homes, and businesses were attacked across Germany and Austria. The pogrom marked a sharp escalation from legal discrimination to public violence.
Antisemitism : Hostility, prejudice, or discrimination directed against Jews as Jews. Nazi policies drew on older antisemitic ideas while making them state doctrine.
Adolf Eichmann : A Nazi official who organized the deportation of Jews from many parts of Europe. His administrative role linked persecution to the transport of victims.
Ghettoization of Jews during the Holocaust : The forced concentration of Jews in segregated urban districts under Nazi occupation. Ghettos isolated Jewish communities and facilitated exploitation, starvation, and deportation.
Jewish refugees from Nazi Germany : Jews who fled Nazi Germany and its expanding sphere of persecution, especially before and during World War II. Discrimination and violence drove people to seek refuge abroad, often amid restrictive immigration policies.
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