Zusammenfassung der Ressource
Persecution of minorities
- Nuremburg laws
- 15 September 1935,
Nuremburg laws were passed
- Reich law on Citizenship stated
that only those of German blood
could be German citizens. Jews lost
right to vote, hold government
office or have German passports
- Reich law for Protection
of German Blood and
Honour forbade Jews
from marrying German
citizens
- April 1938 - Jews had to register
all possessions - making it easier
for government to confiscate them
- July 1938 - Jews had to carry an
identity card stamped J for Jew
- July 1938 - Jewish doctors, dentists and lawyers
were forbidden to work for white Aryan Germans
- Kristall Nacht
- 7 November 1938 - Polish Jew,
Hershel Grynszpan shot Ernst von
Rath (random German)
- Hershel had a grievence
against Germans for the
way they had treated his
parents
- 9 November - von Rath died
- Goebbels said Fuhrer had ordered
that, if Germans decided to take
revenge on Jews, government
should do nothing to prevent it
- Heydrich, Himler's assistant director of SS,
sent instructions to local SS groups to
arrest as many Jews as they could fit into
prisons
- 9&10 November - gangs smashed Jew's
properties and attacked Jews - about 100
Jews killed
- These events were called Kristallnacht (crystal night) or Night
of the Broken Glass