Critique Article

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Molly Loberg, “The Fortress Shop: Consumer Culture, Violence, and Security in Weimar Berlin, Journal of Contemporary History 49, no. 4 (2014): 675-701 http://jch.sagepub.com. idm.oclc.org/content/49/4/675.full.pdf+html While attacks on Jewish stores became commonplace under the Nazis, a pattern of street violence against shopkeepers regardless of their religion was apparent in the last years of the Weimar Republic. This article assesses the motives behind these attacks, the defensive measures storeowners adopted, and the role of the police in Berlin in the last years before 1933