Judea Declares War on Germany

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Frontpage of the Daily Express, March 24

"Judea Declares War on Germany" was the front-page headline of the March 24, 1933 edition of the British newspaper Daily Express. It was the headline for an article that announced a boycott against German goods.^[1] The rest of the mass media did not describe the boycott as a declaration of war. The Nizkor Project says the attempted boycott was declared in response to the anti-Semitic actions by Nazi Germany under Adolf Hitler.^[2]

Three days after the headline was published, a meeting of representatives of British Jews, the Jewish Board of Deputies, denied that there was a boycott against Germany.^[3] Nevertheless, this article and related articles in the British and American press in spring 1933 were used in Nazi propaganda to justify the "Judenboykott," a boycott of Jewish merchants.