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Enabling Act
The Enabling act was called "The law for Terminating the Suffering of People and Nation. It enabled the government to pass any law, write any decree, perform almost any act it wished to, even if it violated the constitution. -
Jewish Boycott
Hitler called for a boycott of all Jewish buisness in Germany. The boycott becan when the attacks against Jews became more widespread. It lasted one day. -
Aryan Law
It was the first anti-Jewish law to pass. It was called "Law for the Restoration of the Civil Service". All non-Aryans in the civil service were to be expelled. All anti-Jewish laws effected all Jews in almost all professions. -
Berlin Book Burning
Berlin University students decided on an act "against the un-German spirit." They collected the works of "undesirable writers" and threw them on a huge bonfire. They burned 70,000 tons of books before they were done. -
Nuremberg Laws
They were in two parts. One was called "The Law for the Protection of German Blood and German Honor," the second, "The Reich Citizenship Law." -
Law#174-Jewish Name Change
If a Jew did not have a "reconizably Jewish" name, the women had to add "Sarah" and the men "Iserael" as middle names to those they had. The government published a list of over one hundred "reconizably Jewish" names. -
Night of Brokekn Glass
It has come to be called "Crystal Night" or "The Night of the Broken Glass" because of the huge amounts of brokekn glass from smashed Jewish storefronts and homes that littered the streets all over Germany. -
Jewish Star Requirment
For the first time since the middle ages centuries earlier, a Jewish badge made its appearance in the civilized world as a mark of shame. In october 1941 Jews were forbidden to leave their homes without permission. They could no longer leave their country. They were trapped.
