The Archive · 1938

Nuremberg Acts Against Jews

Yellow Posts Mark Out Few Remaining Jewish Shops; Nazi Exhibition

Nuremberg, Sept. 5. Several Jewish-owned stores still remain open in Nuremberg, citadel of the chief German anti-Semitic agita-for, Herr Julius Streicher, even as the Nazi Congress is taking place.

All these shops are plainly marked out as Jewish by yellow posts planted on the pavements before the she windows and inscribed, "Jewish Shop" with the signature of the Burgomaster.

The municipality is praised by Nazi news organs for their decision "that Jewish stores should not profit from ihe extraordinary crowding of customers on the occasion of the Congress." These organs propose that that same custom should be extended in use throughout Germany.

Demolition work on: the central synagogue here is proceeding behind a palisade which hides the synagogue on Hans Sachs Platz from public view.

According to Nazi writings, the "oriental style of this building insulted the Germanic character of mediæval, Nuremberg."

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