Editing History of Liechtenstein (section)

==== Rotter kidnapping ====
{{Main article|Rotter kidnapping}}

Since the rise of [[Nazi Germany]] in 1933 and the introduction of [[Anti-Jewish legislation in pre-war Nazi Germany|anti-Jewish laws]] in Germany, Liechtenstein experienced a large rise of [[Jews|Jewish]] emigrants to the country in which the government led by [[Josef Hoop]] had supported the [[naturalization]] of the refugees under a new citizenship law.<ref>{{Cite web |date=29 May 1933 |title=Regierungschef Josef Hoop orientiert den Landtag über einen Entwurf für ein Staatsbürgerschaftsgesetz |url=https://www.e-archiv.li/textDetail.aspx?backurl=auto&etID=41700&eID=1 |access-date=28 July 2023 |website=Staatsarchiv des Fürstentum Liechtenstein |language=de}}</ref> In doing this, Liechtenstein faced attacks from German press and internal sources such as the [[Liechtenstein Homeland Service]].<ref>{{Cite web |date=9 April 1933 |title=Die liechtensteinische Regierung protestiert gegen die deutsche Pressekampagne gegen Liechtenstein |url=https://www.e-archiv.li/textDetail.aspx?backurl=auto&etID=41287&eID=1 |access-date=28 July 2023 |website=Staatsarchiv des Fürstentum Liechtenstein |language=de}}</ref> Hoop personally attempted to temper relations with Germany through the use of private contacts and actively downplayed the threat of [[National-socialism]] within Liechtenstein.<ref>{{Cite web |date=7 March 1933 |title=Regierungschef Josef Hoop bemüht sich über private Kontakte, der deutschen Pressekampagne gegen Liechtenstein entgegenzutreten |url=https://www.e-archiv.li/textDetail.aspx?backurl=auto&etID=41288&eID=1 |access-date=28 July 2023 |website=Staatsarchiv des Fürstentum Liechtenstein |language=de}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |date=21 July 1933 |title=Regierungschef Josef Hoop versichert Prinz Alois von Liechtenstein, dass von der Gründung der Ortsgruppe Liechtenstein der NSDAP keine Gefahr ausgehe |url=https://www.e-archiv.li/textDetail.aspx?backurl=auto&etID=41487&eID=1 |access-date=28 July 2023 |website=Staatsarchiv des Fürstentum Liechtenstein |language=de}}</ref> Most notably, German film directors and theatre managers Fritz and Alfred Rotter with a Jewish background were naturalized in Liechtenstein in 1931. Following German press and demands for their extradition local Liechtenstein Nazis used the event to kidnap the two men and forcefully return them to Nazi Germany in the [[Rotter kidnapping]]. However, this failed and as a result of a highly publicized trial it held back the formation of an organized Nazi party in Liechtenstein until 1938.<ref name=":010">{{Cite web |last=Editorial |date=16 August 2021 |title=Rotter-Entführung |url=https://historisches-lexikon.li/Rotter-Entführung |access-date=23 March 2024 |website=[[Historisches Lexikon des Fürstentums Liechtenstein]] |language=de}}</ref>