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Enabling Act
The Enabling Act was also called “The law for terminating the suffering of people and nation” this act enabled the government to pass any laws they want to. Also it allowed them to perform any act they wanted to. This act supplied a legal backing for dictatorship. Hitler never worried about laws and the rights of citizens. It also allowed anyone to be arrested for no reason. Also this lead to the first concentration camp to open, it was call “Dachau”. No warrants or evidence was necessary. Jews -
Jewish Boycott
Preparations for the boycott went very well. Posters went up everywhere saying “Germans! Defend yourselves! Do not buy from the Jews! Anyone who buys from Jews is a traitor!” Also newspapers and demonstrations were held. The Boycott started on April 1st 1933. Two SS men and two storm troopers stood before each Jewish shop. The word “Jude” which means Jew was painted across the windows or the Nazis favorite slogan “Judah verrecke” which means Jews perish. They boycott lasted only one day, and it -
Aryan Law
The Aryan Law was passed on April 7th 1933. It was the first law that was anti-Jewish. It said that all non-Aryans weren’t allowed to work in government. To be not Aryan you had to have Jewish parents or two or more Jewish grandparents. Between that date and the end of the year the Jews lost a lot of jobs in many work fields. They were not allowed to work in German hospitals or work in German courts. Also they were fired from schools and universities. -
Berlin Book Burning
On May 1st 1933 Berlin University students decide to act against the “un-German sprit”. They went to the school library and collected books from “undesirable writers”. They took the books and threw the books on a huge bon fire they made. They burned 70,000 tons of books before they were done. Josef Goebbels made a speech at the scene “The age of extreme Jewish intellectualism is now ended. “Brighten by these flames our vow shall be: The Reich and the Nation and our Fuhrer Adolf Hitler! Heil! He -
Nuremburg Laws
These laws basically dehumanized the Jews. Germans were not allowed to marry any Jewish person. They had so if one of your grandparents was full Jewish then you were a Jew. They said that the Jews had no right to vote for political parties or be in office. The Jews had to move out because of these new laws back to Poland. There it took several weeks for them to accept the Jews. They made the laws to get rid of the Jews and it worked. -
Law #174
The Jewish name change was for the Jews to choose a “Jewish” name from the list Hitler provided. These names included Menachem, Isidore, Baruch, Ziporah, Chana, and Beine. They made it so if you said your name to anyone they would know that you weren’t a true German and that you were a Jew. The new laws even made it so that if your first name didn’t sound Jewish and you were a Jew that your middle name had to be Jewish. For girls, Sarah, and for boys, Isreal. Even on their passports they had to -
Night of broken glass
This was the night when the Nazi’s used a seventeen year-old Jew’s action to bring upheaval on the Jewish faith and its followers. The seventeen year-old killed a minor German official of the embassy in Paris from rage and grief. Nazi’s lead a pogrom on the Jews; they burned at least 1,118synagogues. They sent the others to concentration camps, with the remains of broken glass from the stores and housing burned. At the camps almost all of the Jewish males between 18 and 65, that was over 30,000 -
Jewish star requirement
The Jewish Star Requirement took away any remaining privileges and ended up trapping them in the borders of Germany. At first they made it so any one who is six or older had to wear the star in public. It was a sign of shame for the Jews and their culture. About a month later they were not able to even leave their homes to safety in another country. They couldn’t even go to the store without Hitler’s “OK”. They were literally trapped.
