How Far Did Nazi Policy Towards the Jews Change in the Years 1933-1939?

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How far did Nazi policy towards the Jews change in the years 1933-1939? Nazi policy towards the Jews got increasingly aggressive from 1933 to 1939 however; this change wasn’t immediate and fluctuated throughout the years depending on certain factors. The official act against the Jews was the boycott of Jewish shops on the 1st of April 1933. Prior to this there had been violence towards the Jews but nothing organised or official. This boycott was met with limited support and was called off after only one day. This showed Hitler that the German people were not yet ready for anti-Jewish policy and needed to be slowly indoctrinated into believing the same ideology as him: Jews are evil. This is a factor that caused the change of policy to be gradual between these years. So, later in April 1933 Hitler banned Jews from civil service, however, there were exceptions as Hindenburg was still president and could still fire Hitler from his job as chancellor so Hitler needed to keep him happy. This did affect Hitler’s legislation by slowing it down until 1934 when Hindenburg died. This gradual small law policy continued and in September 1933 Jews cannot own farms. 1934 was a time of economic recovery and so Hitler had no time to focus on his Jewish policy, as the economic crisis was too large to ignore and taking the Jews out of the economy would be disastrous. This means that 1934 was a relatively calm year and mostly only focused on the continuation of anti- Semitist propaganda to further indoctrinate and prepare the German people for the ultimate goal of extermination of the Jews. So, due to all the factors in his first years Hitler was unable to fully propel his anti-Jewish policy and the policy didn’t change much between these years including the first half of 1935. The end of 1935 showed a lot of progress in Hitler’s anti-Jewish policy in the form of the Nuremberg
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