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Enabling Act
A few monthes after he was elected chancellor of Germany he created the Enabling Act. The Enabling Act got rid of pretty much all the rights for citizens. It gave the Nazi's absolute power over Germany. -
Jewish Boycott
Hitler told the German people to boycott all Jewish businesses. The Nazi's believed that the reason many countries were outraged at Germany was caused by Jews, they called in "International Jewry". The Nazis spread propaganda all around Germany through many different means of information. -
Aryan Law
The "Law for the Restoration of the Civil Service" more comlonly know as the Aryan Law stated that all non Aryans, someone with Jewish parents or two or more grandparents who were Jewish, be expelled from the Civil Service. The laws affected all Jews by the end of 1933. -
Berlin Book Burning
Berlin University students decided that the Jews were un-German and they thought they should do something about it. They buirned the "undesirable writers" works in a bonfire. Josef Goebbels gave a speech at the scene. Heinrich Heine seemed to predict this one hundred years earlier, he wrote "That is only a prelude. When they burn books, in the end it is human beings that they burn. -
Nuremberg Laws
The Nuremberg Laws consisted of twos laws "The Law for the protection of German blood and German honor" and "The Reich citizenship law". Jews could not get married to Aryans, only Aryans could live in the Reich, these are just a few of the laws that limited Jews. -
Jewish name change
As part of the Nuremberg laws Jew without noticably Jewish names had to change their names, woman had to add "Sarah" to their name and men had to add "Israel" to their name. The Nazis made a list of over 100 noticably Jewish names. All Jewis passports were marked with the letter "J" or the word "Jude". -
Night of Broken Glass
A Jewish teenager named Herschel Grynszpan who was a student in Paris was trapped in a border town. He was so mad at how his religion was being treated that he killed a minor official at the German embassy in Paris. The Nazis used this as an excuse to start a riot and to destroy Jewish property. The night of broken glass is known as the unofficial start of the Holocaust. -
Jewish Star Requirement
All Jews from the age of six were required to wear a Jewish star. This was the first time in centuries the Jewish star was a mark of shame in the civilized world. In October 1941 Jews could not leave their houses without permission, they could also not leave the country.
