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During the first months of the German invasion, not much had changed. Members of the National Socialist Movement in the Netherlands (NSB), however, did intimidate and commit acts of vandalism. The first measures of the German occupier were directed at Dutch Jews holding public positions. The anti-Jewish measures followed one another at a fast pace. The purpose of these measures was to register the Jews and to isolate them from the non-Jewish population.

Registering the Jews
Personal story: Cleveringa

1. Residents of the capital reading the announcements of the Air-raid Defence Service* on the wall of the Stock Exchange on the Damrak, Amsterdam, 13 May 1940.
   Photo by Marius Christiaan Meijboom, NIOD Collection, Amsterdam
2. The German occupier implemented strict blackout regulations. No light was to be visible from houses and streets were hardly illuminated.
   NIOD Collection, Amsterdam
3. Using colourful posters the population was urged to observe the blackout properly, 1941.
   Designed by V. Stein, NIOD Collection, Amsterdam

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first anti-jewish measures
protests against the persecution of jews
isolating jews
jewish labour camps
jewish star
the jewish council
chronology:
press and propaganda
civil administration
chronology:
riots in amsterdam
registration, looting, and tracking
propaganda and resistance
chronology:
looting
forced labour