Jews

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Statistics

100,000 Jews in WWI

1/5 of Jewish population served in WWI

1925: 564,000 Jews in full citizenship under constitution

20% married Christians

10% of German doctors: Jews

16% of German lawyers: Jews

870 Jew journalists

2600 Jews working in the arts

Pogrom: an organised attack on Jews

Antisemitism:

hatred of Jews

called 'Christ killers' by christian church

political antisemitism grew: Walter Rathenaeu (Jewish foreign minister) assasinated

Evidence:

A bridegroom describes his marriage ceremony and his patriotic feelings, 1924

" fellow soldiers to German soldiers in the ditches ... graduate of four universities ... son of a German patriot and a leading economic figure."

"I am still not certain if fewer than half of those present at my wedding were non-Jews"

"Nobody imagined at that time, on January 1 1924, that a decade later so many good Germans would be expelled from German society under the racist 'Aryan clauses'"

pre 1933