Sam: The boycott was in response to unofficial antisemitic actions of the Nazis. It was a horrible response, though. It accomplished nothing other than to give them a pretext to officially incorporate antisemitism as official government policy with sanction of the law itself. And the consequences for (initially) German Jewry was devastating. The anti-German protest at Madison Square Garden with 55,000 people when the Germany boycott was initiated occurred on March 27, 1933. The official reaction of the German government was thereafter.
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