A Jewish man commits suicide in protest over exclusion from the German nation

Fritz Rosenfelder was a businessman from Stuttgart, a manufacturing city in south-western Germany with a 1933 population of about 450,000, of whom about 4,500 were Jews. An avid gymnast, Rosenfelder learned that because he was a Jew he would be expelled from his sports club. In response he shot himself to death, leaving the following note. He was 31 years old. Some 5,000 German Jews are estimated to have committed suicide between 1933 and 1945.