german laws

  • enabling act

    enabling act
    It was called the "laws for termanating the suffering of people and nation." It allowed the german goverment to pretty much do anything they wanted even if it was against the consitution. It also allowed dictatorship.
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  • Jewish Boycptt

    Jewish Boycptt
    During the Jewish boycott, all Germans were not permitted to buy anything from the Jewish shops. Hitler had planned this before and publicized this by putting posters up all over the country. Even though the boycott only lasted for one day it got worldwide negative attention and it worried Jews in Germany.
  • Aryan Law

    Aryan Law
    The law was called “the law for the restoration for the civil service.” It required any Jew to be fired from their jobs. It was called the Aryan law because a Jew was considered a non-Aryan
  • Berlin Book Burning

    Berlin Book Burning
    Student in Berlin University burned 70000 tons of books. They burned the books because the German government didn’t like the book and/or author. When they were done about 1/3rd of all the library books in Germany had been destroyed
  • Nuremburg laws

    Nuremburg laws
    One law that was created was the protection law. This laws stated that any Jew could not marry a German. It also said that the Jew was not allowed to show the German flag or national colors. Also the citizen ship law was passed. This stated that Jews were not allowed to be German citizen and it did not allow Jews to vote.
  • law#174 jewish name change

    law#174 jewish name change
    Many Jews had to change their name. The reason this would happen was if they didn’t have a reasonable Jewish name. You could tell if your name was recognizable because the government gave you a list of over 100 Jewish names. If your name wasn’t on the list you either had to add Sara or Israel as a middle name
  • night of broken glass

    night of broken glass
    When the Nazi found out that a Jew killed a German official they decided to attack Jewish synagogues all throughout Germany. It was called the night of broken glass because of all the broken glass from the windows. Also many Jews were sent to concentration camps.
  • Jewish Star Required

    Jewish Star Required
    When this law was passed any Jew over the age of six was not allowed to appear in public without showing the Jewish star aka the Star of David. This was the first time since hundreds of years before the Jewish star was consider a mark of shame.