Nazi

WWII German Laws

By jacob_allen005

  • Adolf Hitler appointed Chancellor of Germany.

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

  • 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 (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 expelled from choir clubs

  • 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.

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

  • 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

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

  • 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.

  • Jews to hand in drivers licenses

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

  • Jew's last will and testaments are no longer valid

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

  • 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 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.

  • Jews not allowed to use public libraries

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

  • 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.

  • 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 approval 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 telephone

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

  • Jewish home must display "Jewish Star".

  • 23. Jews not allowed to have pets

  • 12. 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

  • No milk

  • First direct deportation to Auschwitz.

  • Jews cannot testify in court against Germans

  • Supplying Jews with meat, meat products prohibited