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Enabling Act
Before Hitler came into power Germany had a set of law and rules, but he changes all of that. Hitler said it was for the better good of the people but it was really for his own selfish reasons to gain power. Civil Rights were taken away from people, things like freedom or speech and press. There was also another act passed that said the government was aloud to do as it pleased, no matter what rules of the Constitution they were breaking. -
The Boycott
The Boycott took place for a total of one day and it was when two Nazi's dressed in black were stationed outside of every Jewish owned store and people were told that they should not shop there because the store was owned by Jews. The windows of these stores were also graffitied. The boycott did little to effect Germany, even thought it did grab the attention of the rest of the world, but it did set worry into the minds of the Jews living in Germany. -
The Aryan Law
The Aryan Law was the first anti-Jewish law that was passed. The law said that all non-Aryans were to be expelled from civil service. An Aryan was someone who Hitler thought was pure. A non-Aryan was a Jew or someone that had two or more Jewish grandparents or theri parents were Jewish. Slowly, all professions were effected and all Jews were losing thier jobs. -
Berlin Book Burning
Nazi's influence was becoming greater and greater, people were going to great lengths to rid Germany of the Jews. On May 1st students at Berlin University collected and burned 70,000 tons of books. All of these books had one thing in common; they all had something to do with the Jewish and were considered 'undesirable'. If it wasn't that they were written by the Jew it was that it had some Jewiish concept in it. -
The Nuremburg Laws
By this time some peoplle had thought the worst had passed, but when this Law was passed they realized it hadn't. There were two parts to the Nuremburg Law, protectiona and citizenship. The protection half was mainly about how there is to be no type of relationship between a Jew and a German. The citizenship part specified the rights that only Germans had and that to be a German you had to prove it. -
Jewish Name Change
All Jews had to had to have a recognizable Jewish name. If they did not then the women would have to add 'Sarah' as their middle and the men would 'Isreal' for theirs. The government pusblished a list of acceptable names that had about 100 names in it. -
A Night of Broken Glass
A 17 year old boy killed a minor German offical out of rage and the Germans took that chance as an excuse to unleash a pogrom against Jewish stores and properties. The night was called they night of broken glass becasue of all the smashed glass from windows. Many fires were started too. The Germans wanted this action to seem spontaneous. Over 1,000 Jews were killed and many were sent to the concentration camps. -
Jewish Star Requirment
This is when wearing the Jewish star became a requirment of a Jew wanted to go anywhere out in public. Everyone over the age of six had to wear one. It was the first time since the Middle Ages that his had happend, and now the star was being used as a mark of shame. -
Only So Many Left
By this point only 164,000 Jews remaind in Germany. When Hitler first came into power in 1933 there had been half a million. The Jews that were no longer their had either fled to neighboring countires that would take them in or they had been killed. The ones that were still there had stayed because leaving wasn't something that was easy. They wouldn't have a job to go to and they might not even know the language of the place.
