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Fashion and Persecution The Fate of Jewish Clothiers in the Nazi Dictatorship on the Premises of Today’s Justice Ministry (English)
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This brochure has been published at the initiative of the Federal Ministry of Justice and Consumer Protection. Its aim is to recalland record the individual fatesof the Jewish entrepreneurs who operated their companies onthe premises of today’s Ministry, thus bringing them back from oblivion. Due to the astonishingly high number of companies, in the interests of readability we have decided to focus on and portray individual fates which are especially informativeand gripping, and to embed them within the phases of the destruction of Jewish businesses. We also show how the Jewish clothiers struggled to stand up against their persecution – often with verve and sometimes even with success. (English)
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The Federal Ministry of Justice and Consumer Protection has its seat in the former Jewish ready-made garment district of Berlin. That district existed until the Nazis first confiscated the businesses and then murdered their owners. (English)
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Beginning in 1933, these businesses were attacked by the National Socialists, supported by their lackeys and sycophants, with violent blockades and boycotts. They obstructed the operationof the businesses with a flood of regulations and laws. While some of them were initially able to compensate for domestic losses with their foreign exports, at the latest following the pogrom in November 1938 all Jewish business owners on the premises of today’s Ministry were forced to give up their shops. A total of at least nine businesses were transferred to the possession of non-Jews, and 50 were liquidated. 1Many clothiers were able to emigrate due to their international reputation, but others were deported and murdered by the Nazis. The Reich Justice Ministry flanked the efficiently organised mass murder with legislative initiatives. (English)
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ntil World War II, Hausvogteiplatz, a square thathad been laid out from the wallsof the former city prison, was the uncontested centre of the German fashion world – and a location with international flair. Many of the ready-made fashion shops were run by clothiers who were Jewish or were considered by the National Socialists to be Jews. Today’s Federal Ministry of Justice and Consumer Protection is located on a site where the headquarters of fifty-nine (!) Jewish businesses were located. (English)
Dr. Christoph Kreutzmüller
Eva-Lotte Reimer
Prof. Dr Michael Wildt