Chronik der Juden in Leipzig

Describes the history of the Jews of Leipzig, their occupations and businesses, social and political organizations, and communal institutions, including the activities and the fate of these institutions during the Nazi regime. Pp. 492-692 give examples of antisemitism in the Wilhelmine and Weimar periods, and chronicle in detail Nazi persecution of the Jews. Describes the boycott of 1 April 1933, SA violence, anti-Jewish legislation and decrees, emigration, Aryanization, the "Kristallnacht" pogrom, and the deportations. Appendices deal with war crimes trials of Leipzig Nazi functionaries (most of them ending in very light sentences or in acquittal); a chronicle of the postwar Jewish community, including anti-Jewish measures of the communist regime in the 1950s; and a list of neo-Nazi acts of vandalism and other antisemitic and xenophobic incidents in former East Germany, especially in 1990. The text consists largely of documents, many of them in facsimile.