History - The Holocaust - Nazi Laws


Introduction

Nazi Laws Lesson PowerPoint 

The Nazi government supported and encouraged street violence against the Jews.

On 1 April 1933 the Nazis organised a nationwide BOYCOTT of Jewish businesses, claiming that it was an act of revenge against critics of the Nazi regime.

Stormtroopers barred the entrances to shop and the Star of David was daubed on shop windows.

Over the next ten years, Hitler introduced many laws which gradually took away from.

In the early 1990s two German artists wanted to remind people of how German Jews had been treated in the 1930s and 1940s the Jews of Germany their rights as German citizens. They lived in an area of Berlin where many Jews had lived.

All around the area they put up 80 metal sign attached to lamp posts. On one side of each sign was a simple drawing of an everyday object. On the other, without any comment at all, was a law relating to that object.

A documentary can be seen below (on the right), click here for a detailed map of the area.