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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...Whoever violates the prohibition...will be punished by penal servitude."

September 15, 1935

Reich Citizenship Law

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