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(Saturday, April 1, 1933) — The Nazi government organized a one-day boycott of all Jewish-owned businesses today in Germany, with the assistance of Julius Streicher, publisher of the anti-Semitic daily newspaper Der Sturmer.

The boycott was largely unsuccessful, as the German population continued to use Jewish businesses, but it revealed the intent of the Nazis to undermine the viability of Jews in Germany.

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It was an early governmental action against the Jews of Germany by the new National Socialist government, culminating 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), and ultimately the murder of Jewish business owners.

In Berlin alone, there were 50,000 Jewish-owned businesses.