Association of German National Jews

The Association of German National Jews (German: Verband nationaldeutscher Juden) was a German Jewish organization during the Weimar Republic and the early years of Nazi Germany that eventually came out in support of Adolf Hitler.

It primarily attracted members from the anticommunist middle class, small business owners, self-employed professionals such as physicians and lawyers, national conservatives, and nationalist World War I veterans, many of whom believed that Nazi antisemitism was only a rhetorical tool used to "stir up the masses."[1][2][3]

In 1935, the organization was outlawed, and its founder and leader Max Naumann was imprisoned by the Gestapo.[4] Most other members and their families were murdered in the Holocaust.

Another, smaller group of Jews for Hitler was The German Vanguard.[5]

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  2. ^ "The Verband nationaldeutscher Juden 1921–1933" by Carl J. Rheins in the Leo Baeck Institute Yearbook, Volume 25, Issue 1, p. 243-268.
  3. ^ Hambrock, Matthias (2003). Die Etablierung der Außenseiter: Der Verband der Nationaldeutschen Juden 1921-1935 [The Establishment of the Outsiders. The Association of National German Jews 1921-1935] (in German). Cologne: Böhlau Verlag. ISBN 9783412189020.
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