When the Nazi regime launched a unique sales campaign for the German wine during the years of peace of the "Third Reich" under the catchy slogan "Wine is the people's drink!", Jewish wine merchants were of course excluded from this state "wine propaganda". And that was not all: with open reference to the unspeakable "Nuremberg Laws" passed shortly before, the 1935 vintage in Neustadt in the Palatinate was to be officially proclaimed "racially pure"! Years before the legislative interventions of the Hitler state to aryanize all Jewish businesses took place, the many Jewish citizens in particular, who had earned their living with and in the wine trade in Rheinhessen and the Palatinate for generations, were targeted by the brown rulers. What was the concrete economic impact of the elimination of the Jewish wine trade? And what role did the racial delusion play in National Socialist wine propaganda? Or was there even a direct interaction between the two fields, which then manifested itself, for example, in the proclamation of the "German Wine Route" by the Palatinate Gauleiter Josef Bürkel, which remains popular to this day?
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