Economic Boycott in Response to Anti-Semitism Using the Example of the Second Czechoslovak Republic

Abstract

The economic boycott of Nazi Germany became one of the weapons in the fight against the anti-Semitism of the Nazi regime. During the 1930s, it continued in different power and was also directed against other states where anti-Jewish actions were taking place. That is why the Second Czechoslovak Republic, in which the domestic right wing was heard louder and louder and which, at the same time, found itself under the strong pressure from Germany, was affected by the boycott, too. In spite of the government’s effort to preserve the tradition of religious and racial tolerance, anti-Jewish attacks, mostly verbal, but gradually even real, took place at different levels, resulting in attempts to declare a boycott of Czech-Slovak goods exported to democratic states, especially the USA.