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Anti-Jewish Laws of Pre-WWII Nazi Germany

  • Enabling Act

    Enabling Act
    The act enabled for the government to be able to pass any law, write any decree, preform almost any act it wished to, even if it violated the constitution. The act supplied legal backing for dictatorship.
  • Nazi Picketts

    Nazi Picketts
    The Nazi's stood outside the Jewish shops with signs that read: 'Comrades! Defend yourselves! Don't buy from Jews!' These signs persuaded the Germans to not buy from the Jewish shops.
  • Jewish Boycott

    Jewish Boycott
    Hitler had a boycott for all of the Jewish businesses. There were German stormtroopers out front of every Jewish establishment. The boycott lasted one day. This created a lot of rucus around the world, most of it negative. This did not effect Germany, except to frighten and worry German Jews more.
  • Aryan Law

    Aryan Law
    "Law for the Restoration of the Service" better known as the Aryan Law was if you were non-Aryan (Jewish) then you would be expelled. All of the Jewish workers were expelled from their jobs.
  • Berlin Book Burning

    Berlin Book Burning
    Berlin University students decided on an act "Against the un-German spirit." They collected books from "undesireable writers" and threw them in a huge bondfire. They burned over 70,000 books before they were done.
  • Nuremberg Laws

    Nuremberg Laws
    The Nuremberg Laws were passed in two parts. First, "The Law for the Protection of German Blood and German Honor." This banned Jewish-German marriges to take place. Second, "The Reich Citizenship Law." This law is that "Only a citizen of full Reich enjoys full rights."
  • Law #174: The Jewish Name Change

    Law #174: The Jewish Name Change
    If a Jewish person had an "unrecognizable name" then, the women have to add "Sarah" and the men have to add "Israel" as middle names to those they had.
  • Jewish Persecution

    Jewish Persecution
    A Jewish shop was vandalized by Nazi's. The graffiti reads that the shop owner would be sent to a concentration camp if he were to take down the vandalism.
  • Night of the Broken Glass

    Night of the Broken Glass
    The Night of the Broken Glass, or Crystal Night, was triggered by a 17 year old student from Paris, who shot and killed a minor German officer. The Germans retorted by breaking most of the Jewish shops, and stores' windows.
  • Children Clean Street

    Children Clean Street
    The children were forced to clean the streets of Nazi occupied Poland in 1941. The regular street cleaners didn't have to now that the kids were.
  • Forced Labour In Poland

    Forced Labour In Poland
    Jewish civilians are forced to pull rollers to repair road damage in Nazi-occupied Poland. The Jewish people didn't have a choice to work or not, the Nazi's made them do it.
  • Jewish Star Requirment

    Jewish Star Requirment
    All of the Jew's from the age of six must wear a Jewish Star Badge to represent a mark of shame. If the Jews didn't wear their badge, they were forbidden to leave their homes.