Germany

Pre-War Germany

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    Pre_War Germany

  • The Enabling Act

    The Enabling Act
    The Enapbling Act is Called the Law for Terminain the Suffering of People and Nation. with the pretext of restoring Germany to health the act enabled the government to pass any law, write the sonstitution. The law supplied legal backing for the dictator ship. It happened on March 23, 1933
  • Jewish Boycott

    Jewish Boycott
    On April 1st 1933 Hitler called a boycott of all the Jewish Businesses in Germany. He said it was necessary to control and give and outlet to the spontaneous acts of anti-semitism occuring throughout the coutry. The real reason Hitler called the boycott was because he thought that the worldwide outrage outrage at events in Germany were caused by the Jews.
  • Aryan Law

    Aryan Law
    All Non Aryans in the civil service were to be expelled. A jew was to defend this law as anyone who had jewish parents or two or more grandparents.
  • Berlin Book Burning

    Berlin Book Burning
    On May 1st 1933 Berlin University Students on an act "agains the Un-German Spirit" they collected the works of indesirable writers and threw them on a huge bonfire. They burned 70000 tons of books before they were done.
  • Law #174

    Law #174
    If a Jew did not have a recognizably Jewish name the women had to add Sarah and the men Israel as middle names to those they had.The Government published a list of over 100 different names.
  • The Numbering Laws

    The Numbering Laws
    Hitler Pulled his powere together over the next year often by simply killing anyone that chanllenged him in any way. Induvudual acts of violence against Jews went on but for those few months the government added nothing new to thier burdens.
  • Night Of Broken Glass

    Night Of Broken Glass
    On this night Jewish Storefronts were smashed all over Germany. The Stores were later on looted and destroyed. The Nazis used this as an excuse to unleash a ginat pogram against Jews and Jewish poverty.
  • Jewish Star Reqirement

    Jewish Star Reqirement
    In September 1941, all Jews from the age of 6 were forbidden to appear in public without displaying a Jewish Star. For the first since the middle ages centuries earlier, the Jewish Star was looked at as a mark of shame