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Enabling Act
The Enabling Act was (ironically) named the Law for Terminating the Suffering of People and Nation. This law allowed the government to pass any law they wanted, and the citizens had no choice but to abide even if it violated their rights. -
Jewish Boycott
Hitler ordered a boycott of Jewish businesses to increase the spread of anti-semitism. Notifications of the boycott were not modest in the least; broad annoucements on posters in towns and in newspapers and radio. The boycott only lasted one day and mainly just gained negative attention, but it successfully increased anti-semitism in Germany. -
Aryan Law
The term "non-aryan" applied to all Jews. Anyone with Jewish parents, or two or more grandparents were considered to be Jewish. This term was used to set up the Aryan Law which abolished Jews from having jobs. Jews were taken out of universities and fired from their jobs. -
Berlin Book Burning
Berlin University students decided to rid of "un-German spirit" by burning 70,000 tons of books written by Jews / "undesireable writers". The act spread throughout the country, burning books all over Germany for the same reason. By the end one third of all the books in German libraries were now ashes. -
Nuremberg Laws
The Nuremberg Laws were passed on September 5th 1935. The Law was split in to two parts: "The Law for Protection of German Blood and German Honor" and "The Reich Citizenship Law". The first half banned marriages between Jews and Germans, and also banned Jews of dislaying the German flag or national colors. The second half of the law said only members of the Reich can have full political rights. Citizens could only be a member of the Reich if they were German & willing to serve Germans & theReich -
Law #174-Jewish Name Change
By law, if Jews did not have a "regonizably Jewish name" they had to add one to their name like a middle name. A list was published by the Government containing over a hundred regonizable Jewish names. -
Night of Broken Glass
Also known as Kristallnacht, this was considered the start of the holocaust. Nazis and some townspeople terrorized Jewish homes and businesses. Houses of Jews were raided, Jewish owned shops were distoryed and Synagogues were set on fire. The night resulted in over a thousand deaths of Jews and the spread of terror for Jews. -
Jewish Star Requirement
Jews above the age of six were forced by law to wear the Jewish star when out in public. This was a way of publicly displaying who was Jewish and making it a form of embarassment.
