Jewish Laws

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    Jewish Laws

  • Adolf Hitler appointed was Chancellor of Germany.

  • First concentration camp was established at Dachau, Germany.

  • Nazis organize a nationwide boycott of Jewish-owned businesses in Germany.

  • First anti-Jewish laws passed. Jews are no longer allowed to be public employees.

  • Nazis burn books of those considered un-German.

  • Jews expelled from choir clubs.

  • Jews not allowed to use the beach in Wannsee (Wannsee: lake in Berlin suburb).

  • Jewish musicians prohibited from performing.

  • Marriages between citizens of German blood and Jews punished with prison. Marriages contracted despite this are void.

  • Jews non-citizens and forbidding marriage between Jews and non-Jews.

  • The conversion from Judaism to Christanity has no bearing on race- based on birth one was still considered a Jew.

  • The summer Olympic Games are held in Berlin, Germany.

  • Jews were not allowed to graduate.

  • Germany annexes Austria (Anschluss).

  • Streets with Jewish names to be renamed.

  • Kristallnacht, the Nazis and their collaborators burn synagogues and loot Jewish homes and businesses

  • Jewish children no longer allowed to attend public school.

  • Jews to hand in drivers licenses.

  • In Bavarian Square Jews only allowed to sit on benches marked with yellow color.

  • Jews to turn in gold, silver, platimum, pearls.

  • Jews can be thrown out of their homes without notice and without compensation and placed in appointed "Jew homes".

  • Jew's last will and testaments are no longer valid.

  • German troops invade Poland.

  • Nazi government begins program to kill mentally and physically disabled people

  • German authorities begin forced deportation of Jews

  • Jews not eligible for clothing rations.

  • German troops invade the Netherlands, Belgium, Luxembourg, and France.

  • Jews allowed to shop for food between 4pm and 5pm only.

  • All Jews to perform forced labor.

  • German troops invade the Soviet Union.

  • Jews not to obtain soap or shaving cream with ration cards.

  • German mobile killing squads , were assigned to identify, concentrate, and kill Jews behind the front lines.

  • Jews not allowed to use public libraries.

  • Jews over six years of age to wear yellow star with the word "Jew"

  • Jews over the age of six who reside in Germany had to wear a yellow Star of David in public at all times.

  • Jews not allowed to use public transportation, if crowded. They are only permitted to sit down when none of the other passengers are standing.

  • Jews need police approvel to leave the neighborhoods in which they reside.

  • Deportation of Jews from Germany to the ghettos of Lodz, Riga, and Minsk begins.

  • Jews no longer allowed to emigrate.

  • Gassing operations began at the Chelmno killing center.

  • Jews not allowed to use public telephones.

  • Nazi officials meet in Wannsee to organize the Final Solution

  • Jews not allowed to purchase newspapers or magazines.

  • Jewish home must display "Jewish Star".

  • Jews not allowed to have pets.

  • Jews have to turn in electrical appliances, bicycles, typewriters, and records.

  • Jews not allowed to go to school.

  • Jews not to obtain eggs with their ration cards.

  • Jews could not have milk.

  • First direct deportation to Auschwitz.

  • First direct deportation to Auschwitz.

  • Jews cannot testify in court against Germans.

  • Supplying Jews with meat, meat products prohibited.

  • Jews not allowed to buy books.