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Other than a few radical right extremists virtually no one was interested in targeting Jews in Germany, even under Hitler. As Hitler was in power he was able to use the apparatus of state to round up Jews, to start with less than 1% of the population and over half of whom had emigrated before the war, during the war in 1941. Prior there were not mass arrests of Germans in the Reich (Poland was another story).Fair enough. My assertion that violence against the Jewish community would erupt was more derived from things such as the stab in the back myth, and an assumption that Jews would face hostility in the wake of Great Depression that might boil over into reactionary violence. Before the war, whilst the Jews were integrated, there was still a degree of conservative antisemitism against them, and the suppression of the Jewish Censure led to accusations of a lack of patriotism within the Jewish community, compounded with the financial crash, I assume that violence would still be targeted towards Jews, and whilst not as volatile and extreme as what happened under Hitler, we might see a resurgence in the Völkisch movement.
http://www.ushmm.org/wlc/en/article.php?ModuleId=10005469
It took the war and the government on Hitler's order to launch any significant violence against German Jews. Without Hitler around driving policy its more likely that they would just be left alone, legally petitioning to get back any property and rights they were denied. The question is whether any one would want to come back or stay after what happened. There might be minor personal violence against some Jews, but its likely that the radical Nazis that would engage in such violence would be purged with the fall of Hitler or at least in jail. Hitler demise pretty much knocks out violent anti-semitism, which had not been a problem in Germany since in the 1800s. Even during the German Civil War in 1918-19 violence against Jews was specific to their participation as communists, not being Jewish, though some political assassinations did hit prominent Jewish politicians (though most of the victims were not Jewish) like Walter Rathenau, but even then far more people mourned him:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Walther_Rathenau
For the time being the reactions upon Rathenau's assassination strengthened the Weimar Republic. The most notable reaction was the enactment of the Republikschutzgesetz (Law for the Defense of the Republic) taking effect on July 22, 1922. The Deutschlandlied was made the German national anthem. As long as the Weimar Republic existed, the date June 24 remained a day of public commemorations. In public memory Rathenau's death increasingly appeared to be a martyr-like sacrifice for democracy.[11]