1900–1939
Pogrom of the Scheunenviertel
5-6 nov. 1923·Berlin
The toll is reproduced exactly as the source states it — never rounded, never added to another. Tolls overlap from one event to the next.
the quarter of Eastern European Jews plundered for two days during the inflation crisis
On November 5 and 6, 1923, at the height of hyperinflation, the Scheunenviertel of Berlin, the neighborhood of Jews who had come from Eastern Europe, was given over to looting for two days. Shops were emptied, homes broken into, and passersby recognizable by their dress were assaulted in the streets; the police stood by for a long time before intervening.
The riot targeted the poorest and most recently arrived, singled out as profiteers of the monetary collapse when they were in fact its first victims. It took place just days before the attempted coup d'état in Munich, in a Republic left without authority by the crisis, and it foreshadowed the role that street violence would play in the persecution to come.
- Period :
- 1900–1939
- Type :
- Pogrom
- Region :
- Western Europe
- Country :
- Allemagne
Rapports de la préfecture de police de Berlin ; presse berlinoise et récits de la communauté du Scheunenviertel.