Jewish Laws

By katiejones7

  • Adolf Hitler appointed Chancellor of Germany.

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  • Jewish lawyers/notaries can no longer practice in Berlin.

  • First concentration camp established at Dachau, Germany for political opponents.

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

  • Jewish teachers to be discharged.

  • Jews expelled from sports clubs.

  • First anti-Jewish laws passed. Jews are no longer allowed to be public employees (teachers, post office workers, government workers).

  • Nazis burn books of those considered un-German. This introduces the idea of censorship and government control of culture.

  • Jews cannot belong to German Automobile Club.

  • Jewish musicians prohibited from performing

  • Nazi government declared “racial laws,” making Jews non-citizens and forbidding marriage between Jews and non-Jews. These laws are commonly known as the NUREMBERG LAWS.

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

  • The summer Olympic Games are held in Berlin, Germany. The Nazis remove anti-Jewish signs from public display and restrained anti-Jewish activities to avoid international criticism.

  • Jews were not allowed to graduate.

  • Aryan and non-Aryan children can't play together

  • Germany annexes Austria (Anschluss). Thousands of Austrian Jews flee due to harsh anti-Jewish actions that follow.

  • Jewish doctors can no longer practice

  • Streets with Jewish names to be renamed.

  • Jews to add middle name of "Sarah" or "Israel".

  • Passports of Jews to be stamped with a "J.”

  • In a nationwide pogrom (attack) called Kristallnacht, the Nazis and their collaborators burn synagogues and loot Jewish homes and businesses. Approximately 30,000 Jewish men imprisoned in concentration camps.

  • Jewish employees may be discharged without notice or benefits.

  • Jews not allowed to go to movies, operas and concerts

  • Jews cannot be self employed in any trade

  • Jewish children no longer allowed to attend public schools.

  • Jews to hand in drivers licenses

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

  • German troops invade Poland, marking the beginning of World War II.

  • Jews not allowed to leave their home after 8:00 pm; 9:00 pm in summer

  • Jews to turn in radios

  • Nazi government begins program to kill mentally and physically disabled people in a “euthanasia” program known as the “T-4 Program.”

  • German authorities begin forced deportation of Jews from West Prussia, Poznan, Danzig and Lodz to locations in the General Government (formerly Poland).

  • Jews not eligible for clothing rations

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

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

  • Supplying Jews with meat, meat products prohibited

  • German troops invade the Soviet Union.

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

  • Jews over six years of age to wear yellow star with 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.

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

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

  • Gassing operations began at the Chelmno killing center.

  • Nazi officials meet in Wannsee to organize the Final Solution (mass murder of Jews in Europe).

  • Jews expelled from choir clubs

  • Jews not allowed to have pets.

  • Jews not allowed to go to school

  • First direct deportation to Auschwitz.

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