5. La dynamique de la persécution des Juifs et de la violence au niveau local

Abstract

Since the early 1930s, attacks had been an everyday experience for Jews. This violence was, as Michael Wildt has pointed out, the “core” of Nazi policy. It took place in public and was used to create divisions between the Jewish minority and the racially defined majority society, which promoted itself as a “national community”. This and the link between racist violence and economic motives are at the centre of this article. Its geographical focus is on Berlin, the capital of the Third Reich, because starting in 1933, the Jews, as Wolf Gruner puts it, “[lived] at the intersection of two developments in persecution: the anti-Jewish policies of the Third Reich government on the one hand and the anti-Jewish measures of the Berlin city administration on the other hand”.