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Hitler appointed German Chancellor
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Reichstag Fire
Burning of a parliament building led to the Reichstag Fire Decree that abolished a number of constitutional protections and paved the way for Nazi dictatorship. -
Nazis and Nationalist won a majority in the Reichstag
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Revolution from Below
- Riots against Jews
- Nazi government tried to down play the incidents, "popular anger"
- in reality: initiated at local level by rank-and-file Nazi activists. -Hitler asked to stop the violence in fear of polarising his alliance with the conservative elite
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Enabling law passed
The Act allowed Hitler to enact new laws without interference from the president or the Reichstag (German parliament) for a period of four years. -
The Jewish Boycott
- Anti-jewish violence caused amerians to boycott of german merchandise
- Proved ineffective: what defines a Jewish firm?
- International protests
- last only 1 day
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The Law of the Restoration of the Professional Civil Service
"Aryanism" as a prerequisite for holding civil positions. Excluded Jews -
Jewish Doctors
- Hitler specifically excluded doctors from the aryan clause
- nazi local authorities ignored him and proceeded to ban jewish doctors on their own initiative
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The Law for the Protection of German Blood and German Honour
- Prohibited marriage and sexual relations betwen jews and non-jewish members
- forbade Jews to display the national flag
- prohibited Jews from employing German females under the age of 45 as domestic servants
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The Reich Citizenship Law
- Distinguished between citizens and subjects
- Jews were now officially second-class
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Olympics on Germany
- moderate anti-semetism
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The Conservative Purge
- Hitler dismissed Schancht from Minister of Economics
- First victim of a major purge of conservative in the nazi state
- ended the delicate balance between the Nazis and the traditional elites, conservative had been a major barrier to radical semitism
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Hitler formally declared that he favoured encouraing emigration 'by every possible means'
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The Anshcluss
- Forced union of Germany and Austra in 1938
- Hardening of Semitic activity was accelerated by this
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Kristallnacht
- Orchestrated by party activists
- some nazi memebrs acted alone, elsewhere ordinary germans joing it
- 8000 jewish businesses were destroyed, 200 synagogues burned, 90 jews dead
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Aftermath of Kristallnacht
- Jews were blamed, had to pay for compensation (1000 million marks) for the murder of Rath
- no german were persecuted