Along with the economic depression of the 1930s and by using racist imagery, the Nazi party gained even greater power and popularity by portraying the “Jews” as the source for variety of political, social, economic, and ethical problems facing the German people.
Hitler presented theories of racial struggle and the “intent” of the Jews to survive and take over Germany at the expense of the Germans. The Nazis ordered anti-Jewish boycotts, staged book burnings and enacted anti-Jewish legislation. The Nuremberg Laws defined Jews by race and mandated the total separation of "Aryans" and "non-Aryans." On November 9, 1938, the Nazis destroyed synagogues and the shop windows of Jewish-owned stores throughout Germany.
In this June 19, 1938 file picture, the word Jude (Jew) is smeared to the windows of a shop in Berlin run by Jews. On Nov. 9, 1938 Nazi-incited mass riots left more than 91 Jews dead, damaged more than 1,000 synagogues and left some 7,500 Jewish businesses ransacked and looted.
Samples of the Nuremberg Race Laws (the Reich Citizenship Law and the Law for the Protection of German Blood and Honor). Germany, September 15, 1935.