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Enabling Act
This was later called the law for terminating the suffering of people and nation. With the pretext of resoring a sick Germany to health, the act enabled the goverment to pass any law, write any decree, perform almost any act wished to, even if viloated the consitution. The act supplied the legal backing for the dictatorship. -
Jewish Boycott
Hitler called for a boycott of all Jewish businesses in Germany. He said it was necessary and it was to control and give an outlet to the spontaneous acts of anti-semitism occuring throughout the country. The truth was that the natzis believed that the worldwide outrage events in Germany was created by jews. "international Jewry" they declared was responsible for the "atrocity propaganda" about jews in germany. The boycott took place on April 1st 1933. It only lasted one day. -
Aryan Law
on april seventh, the first anti- jewish law was passed. It was called the ":Law for the Restrotion of the Civil Service" usually referred to as the Ayran Law. All non ayrans in the civil service were to be expelled. A "non Ayran" which meant a jew, was defined in this first law as anyone who had jewish parents or two or more jewish grandparents. -
Berlin Book Burning
On May first, Belin university students decided on an act "against the un-german spirit" They collected the works of "undesireable writers" and threw them on a huge bonfire, They burned 70,000 tons of books before they were done. -
Nuremberg Laws
On september 15, 1935, any hope taht the worst had past vanished forever. The Numberg Laws were passed. They were in two parts. One was called "The Reich Citzenship Law". First, the protection law. Marrige between jews and citizens of German or related blood are forrbidden. Jews are not permitted to display the german flag or national colors, etc. Next, the citszenship law. Only full citizens of the Reich enjoys full political rights etc. -
Law#174
If a Jew didn’t have a “recognizably jewish” name, the women had to add “Sarah” and the men “Israel” as middle names to those they had. The government published a list of over one hundred “recognizably jewish” names. It included Menachem, Isidore, Baruch, ziporah, Chana, Beine. -
Night of Broken Glass
They called it the night of broken glass because of the huge amounts of broken glass from smashes jewish storefronts and homes that littered the streets all over germany. It took place on the night and morning of november 9th and 19th, 1938. -
Jewish Star Requirement
In september 1941, “all Jews from the age of six are forbidden to appear in public without displaying the Jewish star.” In october 1941 jews were forbidden to leave their homes without permission. They could no longer leave their country
