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On March 23, 1933, the newly elected members of the German Parliament (the Reichstag) met in the Kroll Opera House in Berlin to consider passing Hitler's Enabling Act. It was officially called the 'Law for Removing the Distress of the People and the Reich.' If passed, it would effectively mean the end of democracy in Germany and establish the legal dictatorship of Adolf Hitler.
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BOYCOTT, ANTI-JEWISH, organized activity directed against the Jews to exclude them from social, economic, and political life
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Held in Berlin on May 10, 1933, 1000’s of titles worte by jewish people were burned on a large pyre. These volumes were collected, stacked and lit afire by the Nationalist German Students Organization.
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The Aryan Law was a piece of legislation the Nazis implemented early in Hitler’s rule to drive Jews out of the professions
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A conference of ministers was held on August 20, 1935, to discuss the economic effects of Party actions against Jews
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This day in 1938 saw the organized destruction of Jewish businesses and homes
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The Nazis required it as a way to identify Jews quickly and easily. (The five-point Star of David has for a long time been regarded as a badge of Jewish identity
