Reich Citizenship Law: Hitler's Hatred For Jews

It is said that Hitler’s fanatical hatred for the Jews stems from the time he spent in Vienna as a young man, where he failed to be accepted into the Academy of Fine Arts school, twice. He wanted to pursue a career in Art to express his creative talents of painting and drawing, however from his rejection of Arts school, he focused his interests on other studies. He became interested in politics and often read anti-Semitic articles in the daily newspaper. Hostility towards Jews, dates to ancient times, perhaps to the beginning of Jewish history. From the days of the Bible until the Roman Empire, Jews were criticized and sometimes punished for their efforts to remain a separate social and religious group - one that refused to adopt the values
On April 1 1933, he ordered a boycott of Jewish shops, doctors lecturers and lawyers. Jews were banned from government jobs under the ‘Law for the restoration of the professional civil service’ and were forbidden to join the army from May 1935. From September 1935, the first of the ‘Nuremburg laws’ were passed, the law for the protection of German blood and honour prohibited marriages between Jews and non Jews, which meant that any sexual relations between Jews and non Jews outside of a marriage was a criminal offence which could result in imprisonment. The ‘Reich Citizenship Law’ removed the rights of Jews as German citizens, meaning Jews could not vote making them feel like guests in their own county. During this time Jews suffered greatly under Hitlers power and many took the opportunity to leave the country in 1936 when Germany hosted the Olympic games. The persecution did lead to the emigration of nearly 150,000 people in which 30% were Jews between 1933 and 1938.The Jews that remained in Germany didn’t want to leave their personal property and possessions that they have worked hard for, and stayed in hope that Hitler would change. Their assumptions couldn’t have been more mistaken as the process of Aryanisation only continued to worsen when more drastic measures were taken to force Jews to leave Germany. Hitler’s treatment towards the Jews even went as far as organizing a vast assault on Jewish property, which involved many homes, shops and synagogues destroyed. This outrageous event was called ‘Kristallnacht’ (crystal night or night of broken glass) as so many windows were significantly smashed that night. During Kristallnacht, over 100 Jews were killed and 20,000 sent to concentration camps and were made to pay one billion schmarks for the damage. After this, a decree was made that excluded Jews from German economic life which meant that