NAZI Anti-Jewish Signs: Types--Public Facilities


Figure 1.--This is a illustration from an German children's book 'Don't Trust a Fox'. It was published by Der Sturmer. The sign reads '!Juden! Sind hier unerwuenscht" which means '!Jews! are not wanted here'. The book was published in 1936. It illustrates the signs that were going up all over Germany, barring Jews from public places. Jews who ignored the signs faced beatings and even arrest. It was part of the overall process of isolating Jews from other Germans.

Municipal authorities began placing on park benches or even entire parks as well as facilities like beaches, theaters, libraries and other local muncipal facilities. e are not sure yet about the chronology of these signs. Webelieve that many went up after the issuance of the Nuremberg Race Laws (September 1935). Here the NAZIs were in part following practices common in the American South at the time restricting the access of Blacks in public facilities. (American precedents were also important in the NAZI eugenics program.) The American system was, however, different from the NAZI system. The American system of segregation was based on the principle of separate, but equal. This was imperfectly applied of course, but in facilities where there were 'white only' drinking fountains or benches, there was some effort to have comparable 'colored' facilities. Thus while facilities in parls and train statiins might be designated for whites and blacks, the facility itself was not closed to blacks. There might be separate seating areas such as in theaters, but blacks had access to the facilities, hwever unequal. This was not the case in Germany. A major difference wa that in America blacks were citizens, as a result of the Civil War enshirined in the Contitution. Jews after the issuance of the Nuremberg laws were no longer citizens and thus having aby legl protection. In Germany, Jews were simply excluded from a range of public facilities with no effort made to provide separate Jewish facilities. In fact because of the Nuremberg Laws, Jewish property was being seized, making it impossible to set up Jewish even private facilities such as camping areas for youth groups.







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