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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."
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Nuremberg
Laws
- With the passage of
the Nuremberg Laws by the Reichstag on September 15, 1935, the
first direct attack on individual Jews was launched. These laws
mark a sharp progression toward an irreversible anti-Semitic policy.
In the future, no Jew would be able to escape intensified persecution.
- September 15, 1935
- Law
for the Protection of German Blood and German Honor
"Marriages between Jews and subjects of German or kindred
blood are forbidden...Extramarital intercourse forbidden between
Jews and subjects of German or kindred blood...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...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."
- 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..."
- August 17, 1938
- Second
Decree for the Implementation of the
Law Regarding Changes of Family Names
"Jews may be given only such given names as are listed in
the Guidelines on the Use of Given Names issued by the Reich Minister
of the Interior... Insofar as Jews have other given names than
those which may be given to Jews...they are obligated, beginning
January 1, 1939, to assume an additional given name, namely the
given name Israel in the case of males and the given name Sarah
in the case of females."
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