Wholesale liquidation of Jewish artisan workshops, effected under the four-year plan, has affected more than 15,000 Jewish artisans throughout the Reich, according to official figures published by the Reich Corporation of Artisanship.
A total of 5,822 independent Jewish workshops existed in the Old Reich in December, 1938, and 9,538 in Austria in March, 1938. Between January and March, 1939, 345 workshops in the Old Reich and 940 in Austria were transferred to “Aryans,” the remainder apparently unsaleable because ruined by previous boycott. At the same time it was revealed that more than 4,000 Jewish workshops had already been liquidated in the Old Reich between 1935 and 1938.
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