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1. Enabling Act
Hitler had decided to bulid up his dictatorship through a long legal process. After elimating all the Communist, Hitler was still short of being elected by 31 votes. Hitler then pursuaded the German Center Party to approve of him joining the government. In a meeting Hitler lied saying that he would use his new legal power "only for emergencies" over the next four years. -
Jewish Boycott
600,000 Jews lived in Germany in 1933, which is less than one percent of the total population. Most of the Jewish people were proud to be German citizens, a country with talent and power. more than 100,000 Jews served in the German Army. Overall, Jews held a pretty big part in the German history, and in the govenment. On April 1st 1933 was the first offical day that the Germans planned against the Jews. This boycott included people hanging signs saying "we don't sell to Jews" outof space -
Berlin Book Burning
The Nazi's were afraid of someone who is intelligent to over throw them and rebel. So, the Nazis gathered all of the book that weren't approved of the government and burned them. Students who attended the Berlin University actually took this into their own matters and burned more than 70,000 books. -
Aryan Law
When Hitler came to power in Germany, he started to add all these laws and beliefs. One of these beliefs were about creating a "pure" race. This race would go on to be call the Aryan race. If you had blonde hair, blue eyes, and were tall than you were and "Aryan". -
Nuremberg Laws
Nuremberg Laws were just more race laws, but they were very important. For example there was a marriage law that stated Germans weren't allowed to marry Jews. They didn't want you to marry anybody who was sick either because they thought of those people being weak. One more example is the Nazis didn't define you as a Jew because of religion, if you had four or five grandparents that were Jewish than you would be considered a Jew, Regaurdless of what you were now like catholic for example. -
Rule #174
Jewish people had to have reconisible "jewish names". If their name wasn't "Jewish" enough or didn't meet the Nazis standards then they had to add - to or change their middle name to a specific name. The Nazi government also came out with a reconisible jewish name, list. -
Night of the Broken Glass
The Nazis used a boy killing a German officer as an excuse to unlease violence on the Jewish people. It is called "crystal night" because of the huge amounts of broken glass on the streets, due to people destroying Jewish stores and households. -
Jewish Star Requirements
Every Jew that was from the age six or up was required to were a badge with the Star of David on it. This band was to show a mark of shame or to be a disgrace to the German race.
