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German Jewish passports could be used to leave, but not to return. On 4 June 1937, two young German Jews, Helmut Hirsch and Isaac Utting, were both executed for being involved in a plot to bomb the Nazi party headquarters in Nuremberg. [citation needed] As of 1 March 1938, government contracts could no longer be awarded to Jewish businesses.
The first Jewish population in the region to be later known as Germany came with the Romans to the city now known as Cologne. A "Golden Age" in the first millennium saw the emergence of the Ashkenazi Jews, while the persecution and expulsion that followed the Crusades led to the creation of Yiddish and an overall shift eastwards.
The Association of German National Jews (VnJ) was founded in 1921 by Max Naumann, who was its chairman until 1926, and, again, from 1933 to 1935, when the association was forcibly dissolved. [1] The association was close to the national conservative and monarchist German National People's Party which, however, refused affiliation to the ...
The Jewish collaboration with Nazis were the activities before and during World War II of Jews working, voluntarily or involuntarily, with the antisemitic, racist, homophobic regime of Nazi Germany, with different motivations. The term and history have remained controversial, regarding the exact nature of collaboration in some cases.
Jewish German anti-Zionists (11 P) German Ashkenazi Jews (3 C, 58 P) C. Jewish German culture (7 P) D. People of German-Jewish descent (45 C, 1 P)
For the Jews who came from the German speaking world, there was a word in use for many years : "Yekke", in Yiddish and Hebrew. One of the explanations of the name in Hebrew is "Yehudi Kshe Havana" יהודי קשה הבנה "A Jew who hardly understands" for the so called "stiffness of their mentality". [citation needed]
A kapo (German: Kapo) was one of the prisoner functionaries (German: Funktionshäftlinge), a prisoner in a Nazi camp who was assigned by the SS guards to supervise forced labor or carry out administrative tasks. After World War II, the term was reused as an insult; according to The Jewish Chronicle, it is "the worst insult a Jew can give ...
German Jews in Israel; Total population; 70,000 (2012) [citation needed] Regions with significant populations; Jerusalem, Tel Aviv, Haifa, Netanya, Ashdod, Beersheba and many other places