Raids in the Scheunenviertel

The Raids in the Scheunenviertel were a recurring event in which attempts were made, with great success, to spoil the mood of the residents on the basis of minor attributes such as religious affiliation, nationality or appearance. The center of the searches was always Grenadierstraße but the remaining streets were not spared either.I. Kirschey-Feix: Treffpunkt Scheunenviertel: Leben im Schtetl, Neues Leben Verlag, Berlin 1993 
In the 1920s, the Scheunenviertel was the most densely populated area in Berlin. Among the residents were many Orthodox Eastern European Jews who had fled to Berlin from pogroms in Poland, Lithuania and the Ukraine. In the public debate they were often referred to only as "Eastern Jews", which was a synonym for "backward". Jewish Museum: Berlin Transit. Jewish migrants from Eastern Europe in the 1920s. Wallstein 2012. Anyone who suspects that this type of event only became en vogue in Germany after 1933 is mistaken: On November 5 and 6, 1923, the first pogrom of frustrated unemployed people took place in Grenadierstraße . The police discreetly recovered and then arrested some of the attacked. M. Pfaffenzeller: "Pogrom im Scheunenviertel" at Spiegel Online 
The police carried out further raids in 1920, 1923 and 1933. The reporting warned the masses of the “slider-puller” and “criminal elements” of the Scheunenviertel, who are known to be very into such “crime stories”.
Also in April 1933 a large anti-Semitic police raid took place, which was staged as a media event, much to the delight of the organizer Joseph Goebbels. The raid was accompanied by photographers who showed the Jewish residents of the district as backward and alien in their photos, thus serving anti-Semitic stereotypes. Police interrogations were also broadcast directly on the radio, but only of those people who spoke broken German. K. Hesse: "Directed images. Propagandistic perspectives and photographic staging of the Reich capital." In: M. Wildt, C. Kreuzmüller: Berlin 1933–1945 A live event like from the times of Reality TV, which served as a prequel for what was to come in the Scheunenviertel in the coming years and in the second Season of the Demolition of the Scheunenviertel found another "peak".
== Links ==
* Berlin and its society under National Socialism on: Deutschlandfunk
*Podcast of the 1933 edition
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