Document #1: Nazi Anti-Jewish Laws Shortly after Hitler’s appointment as Reich Chancellor on January 30, 1933, the Reichstag (German parliament) began to institute a series of anti-Jewish decrees. Sections of these laws are quoted below: April 7, 1933 Laws for the Restoration of the Professional Civil Service ” Civil servants who are not of Aryan (non-Jewish) descent are to be retired.’ April 7, 1933 Law Regarding Admission to the Bar ” Persons who, according to the Law for the Restoration of the Professional Civil Service of April 7, 1933, are of non-Aryan descent may be denied admission to the bar.’ April 25, 1933 Law Against the Crowding of German Schools and Institutions of Higher Learning ” In new admissions, care is to be taken that the number of Reich Germans who, according to the Law for the Restoration of the Professional Civil Service of April 7, 1933, are of non-Aryan descent, out of the total attending each school and each faculty, does not exceed the proportion of non-Aryans within the Reich German population.’ 1. How would these laws affect the Jewish population? 2. If you were Jewish would you leave Germany? Explain Document #2: Nuremberg Laws September 15, 1935 Law for the Protection of German Blood and German Honor ” Marriages between Jews and subjects of German blood are forbidden… Jews are forbidden to fly the Reich and national flag and to display Reich colors… They are, on the other hand, allowed to display the Jewish colors…
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Between Dignity and Despair: A Review of Marion Kaplan s Book Marion Kaplan s Between Dignity and Despair (Oxford, 1998) covers stories of Jewish life in the time of the Holocaust, when the Nazis began to overtake Germany. Kaplan herself narrates to the reader historical facts, while she includes selections from letters, memoirs, and interviews with survivors. The book is written in chronological ...
Whoever violates the prohibition… will be punished by penal servitude.’ September 15, 1935 Reich Citizenship Law’A Reich citizen is only that subject of German or kindred blood who proves by his conduct that he is willing and suited loyally to serve the German people and the Reich.’ 1. How would these laws affect the Jewish population? A. Social effects.
Political effects. Economic effect Document #3: Nuremberg Laws: Who is a Jew? November 14, 1935 First Decree to the Reich Citizenship Law’A Jew cannot be a Reich citizen. He is not entitled to the right to vote on political matters; he cannot hold public office… A Jew is anyone descended from at least three grandparents who are fully Jewish as regards race… Also deemed a Jew is a Jewish Mischlung subject who is descended from two fully Jewish grandparents and… who belonged to the Jewish religious community…
who was married to a Jew… who is the offspring of a marriage concluded by a Jew… who is an offspring of extramarital intercourse with a Jew… .’ 1. Who is determining what a person’s race or nationality is? 2.
How is this being determined? 3. Why do you think these laws were created?
