Jewish Laws

By merrigracemarch

  • First concentration camp established at Dachau, Germany for political opponents.

  • Jewish tearchers to be discharged

  • Nazis organize a nationwide boycott of Jewish-owned businesses in Germany.

  • First anti-Jewish laws passed. Jews are no longer allowed to be public employees (teachers, post office workers, government workers).

  • Jews expelled from sports clubs

  • Nazis burn books of those considered un-German. This introduces the idea of censorship and government control of culture.

  • Jews expelled from choir clubs

  • Jews cannot belong to German Automobile Clubs

  • Jewish actors and actresses prohibited from performing

  • Nazi government declared “racial laws,” making Jews non-citizens and forbidding marriage between Jews and non-Jews. These laws are commonly known as the NUREMBERG LAWS.

  • The summer Olympic Games are held in Berlin, Germany. The Nazis remove anti-Jewish signs from public display and restrained anti-Jewish activities to avoid international criticism.

  • Jews not allowed to graduate

  • The summer Olympic Games are held in Berlin, Germany. The Nazis remove anti-Jewish signs from public display and restrained anti-Jewish activities to avoid international criticism.

  • Jewish doctors can no longer practice

  • Streets with Jewish names to be renamed

  • Passports of Jews mus be stamped with a "J"

  • In a nationwide pogrom (attack) called Kristallnacht, the Nazis and their collaborators burn synagogues and loot Jewish homes and businesses. Approximately 30,000 Jewish men imprisoned in concentration camps.

  • Jews cannot be sel employed in any trade

  • Jewish children no longer allowed to attend public schools

  • Jews not allowed to use swimming pools

  • Jews hand in drivers licenses

  • Jews turned in golds, silver, platinum, and pearls

  • Jews not allowed to leave their home after 8:00 p.m; 9:00 p.m. in the summer

  • German troops invade Poland, marking the beginning of World War II.

  • Jews must turn in radios

  • Nazi government begins program to kill mentally and physically disabled people in a “euthanasia” program known as the “T-4 Program.”

  • German authorities begin forced deportation of Jews from West Prussia, Poznan, Danzig and Lodz to locations in the General Government (formerly Poland).

  • German troops invade the Netherlands, Belgium, Luxembourg, and France.

  • German mobile killing squads, Einsatzgruppen, were assigned to identify, concentrate, and kill Jews behind the front lines. (summer and fall)

  • All Jews have to perform forced labor

  • German troops invade the Soviet Union.

  • Jews not allowed to us public Libraries

  • Jews over the age of six who reside in Germany had to wear a yellow Star of David in public at all times.

  • Deportation of Jews from Germany to the ghettos of Lodz, Riga, and Minsk begins.

  • Jews were no longer to emigrate

  • Gassing operations began at the Chelmno killing center.

  • Jews not allowed to use public telephone

  • Nazi officials meet in Wannsee to organize the Final Solution (mass murder of Jews in Europe).

  • Bakaries and candy stores are off-limits to Jews

  • Jewish home home must display a "Jewish Star"

  • Jews not allowed to have pets

  • Jews not allowed to go to school

  • Jews not obtain eggs with their ration cards

  • Jews were not allowed to buy milk

  • First direct deportation to Auschwitz

  • First direct deportation to Auschwitz.

  • Jews cannot testify in court against Germans

  • Supplying Jews with meat, meat products prohibited

  • Jews were not allowed to buy books