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Nazi Anti-Jewish Laws
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Enabling Act
Called "The law for terminating the suffering of people and nation." The act enabled the government to pass any law, write any decree, perform almost any act it wished to, even if it violated the constitution -
Jewish Boycott
After the Nazis came to power in Germany on January 30, 1933, the Nazi leadership decided to stage an economic boycott against the Jews of Germany. In 1933, about 600,000 Jews lived in Germany, less than one percent of the total population. -
Aryan Law
The Aryan Law was a piece of legislation the Nazis implemented early in Hitler’s rule to drive Jews out of the professions. -
Berlin Book Burning
On the night of May 10, 1933, an event unseen in Europe since the Middle Ages occurred as German students from universities once regarded as among the finest in the world, gathered in Berlin to burn books with "unGerman" ideas. -
Nuremberg Laws
The laws excluded German Jews from Reich citizenship and prohibited them from marrying or having sexual relations with persons of "German or related blood." -
Law #174
Forced Jews to assume a name from a published list of names considered Jewish. Accordingly all Jewish men carried one of these Hebrew first names and all had the middle name Israel. All Jewish women were assigned the middle name Sarah. -
Night of Broken Glass
anti-Jewish acts that took place in Czechoslovakia. German troops went around smashing the glass of Jewish stores because they were angry. -
Jewish Star Requirement
A policy created by the German that requires all the Jews to wear a star to label them as Jewish
