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Anti Jewish Laws Germany Timeline
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Enabling Act
It was called the Law for Terminating the Suffering of People and Nation. This act allowed the government to pass any law, write any decree, and perform any task they wished. It supplied legal backing for dictatorship. The first concentration camp was created due to this act.
CAPTION: This is the signing of the Enabling Act. -
Jewish Boycott
Posters went out telling German citizens to not buy goods from Jews or they would be a traitor to their country. On April 1st, 1933 Nazis went around and vandalized Jewish owned stores by writing Jew on them. It only lasted one day.
CAPTION: Nazis holding signs telling people to not buy goods from this Jewish owned store. -
Aryan Law
The first anti Jewish laws were passed. It was called the "Law for the Restoration of the Civil Service," which is referred as the Aryan Law. People who were non-Aryan (Jewish) were expelled. At that time a Jew was defined as anyone having two Jewish parents and/or two or more Jewish grandparents. This affected Jews in all profession.
CAPTION: This is a Jewish family in 1933. -
Berlin Book Burning
On May 1st Berlin University students gathered books that weren't in support of German citizens. They burned them in a huge bonfire. They burned 70,000 tons of books.
CAPTION: "That was only a prelude. When they burn books, in the end it is human beings that they burn." - Heinrich Heine -
Nuremberg Laws
The Nuremberg Laws were passed by Hitler. There were two parts: "The Law for the Protection of German Blood and German Honor," and "The Reich Citiziship Law." The protection law prevented marriages between Jews and German citizens. Another law was that Jewish home owners could not hire any German women under the age of 45. Another rule was that only the full citizen of the Reich enjoys potical rights. After this Jews were seperated from "real" German citizens. Caption "The Nuremberg laws -
Jewish Name Change Law
If Jewish people did not have a reconiziable Jewish name then women would have to add Sarah as a middle name and men would have to chnge their middle name to Israel. The government printed out a list of appropriate Jewish names some included Isidore and Beine. Passports for Jews were either marked with a J or Jude.
CAPTION: A list of Jewish names. -
The Night of Broken Glass
After a young Jewish studnet living in Paris killed a minor German official Nazis seeked their revenge aganist the Jews. This night is now know as "Crystal Night" or "Kristallnacht". The Nazis wanted to express their anger at the Jews for killing the German offical. Nazis set fire or blew up all the Jewish synagogues. 1,000 Jews were killed throughout the country and 30,000 were put in concentration camps.
CAPTION: Buring synagogue in Nazi Germany on Kristallnacht. -
Jewish Star Requirement
All Jews from the age of six and over are not allowed to appear in public without showing their Jewish Star. It was a mark of shame.
CAPTION: A Jewish armband mandatory for Jewish people to wear.
