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Law Regarding Physicians' Services with the National Health Service
This was enacted in April, 1933 and mostly affected Jewish doctors. It stated that any patients who saw non German doctors would not be covered under the German's health insurance. This got rid of a lot of Jewish doctors and made it very hard for them to get patients. -
Enabling Act
The Enabling Act was enacted on March 24th, 1933. It was the start of the many Reich laws to come after it. This allowed Hitler to make laws that violated the constitution that was already set in place. This law made it very easy for Hitler to make the discriminating laws towards the Jews. -
Law for the Restoration of the Professional Civil Service
On April 7th, 1933 the German government creates the Law for the Restoration of the Professional Civil Service. This law prohibits Jews and anyone who did not support the Nazis from any political position. Some people were exempted such as Jewish Lawyers and people who worked in civil service earlier. Many people lost their jobs from this making it hard for Jewish people to get jobs after it. -
Law against Overcrowding in Schools and Universities
As certain laws began to form in Germany, they started to form laws in schools such as the law against overcrowding in schools and universities. This law limited the number of Jewish students being able to attend public schools. This made it very hard for Jewish children to attend school or even be able to find a school that accepted Jews. -
Hereditary Farm Law
The Hereditary Farm Law was passed on September 29th, 1933. This law prohibited Jews from being farmers and only the Germans could be. This law wanted to portray the fact of the "German blood line" like most of the other laws. This really impacted the Jewish community from farming. For example if a Jewish famer gets most of his food from his crops, he now does not have a large food supply anymore. -
Law on Editors Bans Jews From Editorial Posts
The Editors Law was established on October 4th, 1933. The law banned Jewish and Non-Aryans from working in or with journalism. At the time it was a big deal because Jews could not write about what was happening and were not able to tell the full story of what was happening. -
Law for the Prevention of Genetically Diseased Offspring or The Sterilization Law
This law was proposed on July 14th, 1933, and set in place in January 1934. These laws were to prevent the spreading of any genetic disorder. A teacher would tell who should be sterilized and the parents would be sent a letter saying that the child must be. The child would be sent to the hospital even if they did not want to be and sterilized so that they can never pass on their genetics to their children. (The picture is of Helga Gross, who was deaf and sterilized because of the law.) -
Nuremberg Laws
The Nuremberg Laws were several laws that were legislated on September 15th, 1935. The laws were put in place to prevent the marriages or intercourse between Jews and Germans. Another law was put in to make sure no German females under the age of 45 would work in a Jewish household. These laws were to help protect of German Blood and German Honour. -
Reich Citizenship Law
The Reich Citizenship Law was set on September 15th, 1935. It stripped the Jews from Reich citizenship. It also excluded them from marrying other German's to prevent the mixing of Jewish people and the "regular German blood." -
Law of the Alteration of Family
This law was put in place on August 17th, 1938. It separated Jewish people from "regular" Germans by adding to their name. This made it so that people would know easily knew that they were Jewish. Although, with this law it made it very difficult for people to hide the fact that they were Jewish.
