The Holocaust: Kristallnacht

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Following the meeting, a wide-ranging set of antisemitic laws were passed which had the clear intent, in Goering's words, of "Aryanizing" the German economy. Over the next two or three months, the following measures were put into effect (cf., Burleigh and Wippermann, The Racial State: Germany, 1933-1945. NY: Cambridge, 1991:92-96):

1. Jews were required to turn over all precious metals to the government.

2. Pensions for Jews dismissed from civil service jobs were arbitrarily reduced.

3. Jewish-owned bonds, stocks, jewelry and art works can be alienated only to the German state.

4. Jews were physically segregated within German towns.

5. A ban on the Jewish ownership of carrier pigeons.

6. The suspension of Jewish driver's licenses.

7. The confiscation of Jewish-owned radios.

8. A curfew to keep Jews of the streets between 9:00 p.m. and 5:00 a.m. in the summer and 8:00 p.m. and 6:00 a.m. in the winter.

9. Laws protecting tenants were made non-applicable to Jewish tenants.

10. [Perhaps to help insure the Jews could not fight back in the future, the Minister of the Interior issued regulations against Jews' possession of weapons on November 11. This prohibited Jews from "acquiring, possessing, and carrying firearms and ammunition, as well as truncheons or stabbing weapons. Those now possessing weapons and ammunition are at once to turn them over to the local police authority."]