https://padlet.com/alexiskoch/84yk9719vvh5btaq en-us 2022-09-01 14:12:10 UTC 2022-09-01 17:40:59 UTC hello@padlet.com alexiskoch https://padlet.com/alexiskoch/84yk9719vvh5btaq/wish/2279398355 Students in college towns all throughout Germany burned 25,000 "un-German" books in Opera Square in Berlin. This was part of an effort to align German arts and culture with Nazi ideas. The students took the books that they got from public and university libraries and threw them onto bonfires. There was a band there that played "fire oaths." The students burned some important works, including the works of Helen Keller. ]]> 2022-09-01 14:37:31 UTC https://padlet.com/alexiskoch/84yk9719vvh5btaq/wish/2279398355 alexiskoch https://padlet.com/alexiskoch/84yk9719vvh5btaq/wish/2279399165 The German government passed the “Law for the Prevention of Offspring with Hereditary Diseases.” This law enforced the forced sterilization of certain individuals with physical and mental disabilities. It implements a basis for the involuntary sterilization of people with physical and mental disabilities or mental illness.]]> 2022-09-01 14:38:07 UTC https://padlet.com/alexiskoch/84yk9719vvh5btaq/wish/2279399165 alexiskoch https://padlet.com/alexiskoch/84yk9719vvh5btaq/wish/2279407203 German Jewish organizations established the Central Organization of German Jews. This was in an attempt to better represent the interests of German Jews through a unified response to escalating Nazi persecution. Julius Brodnitz was a founding member of the Central Organization of German Jews.]]> 2022-09-01 14:43:32 UTC https://padlet.com/alexiskoch/84yk9719vvh5btaq/wish/2279407203 alexiskoch https://padlet.com/alexiskoch/84yk9719vvh5btaq/wish/2279414985 The Editors Law forbids non-“Aryans” to work in journalism. The German Propaganda Ministry assumed control over the Reich Association of the German Press. During the Editors Law, the association kept registries of “racially pure” editors and journalist. Also, they excluded Jews and those married to Jews from the profession.]]> 2022-09-01 14:48:56 UTC https://padlet.com/alexiskoch/84yk9719vvh5btaq/wish/2279414985 alexiskoch https://padlet.com/alexiskoch/84yk9719vvh5btaq/wish/2279474268 The German government passed the “Law against Dangerous Habitual Criminals.” This law allows courts to order the indefinite imprisonment of “habitual criminals” if they deem the person dangerous to society. In addition, it  provides for the castration of sex offenders.]]> 2022-09-01 15:28:07 UTC https://padlet.com/alexiskoch/84yk9719vvh5btaq/wish/2279474268 alexiskoch https://padlet.com/alexiskoch/84yk9719vvh5btaq/wish/2279595731 The first Concentration Camp was in Dachau, Germany. At first, the goal was for it to be for Hitler's political opponents which consisted of communists, social democrats, and other dissidents.]]> 2022-09-01 16:57:16 UTC https://padlet.com/alexiskoch/84yk9719vvh5btaq/wish/2279595731 alexiskoch https://padlet.com/alexiskoch/84yk9719vvh5btaq/wish/2279607869 The Law on Admission to Legal Practice excluded “non-Aryans” from government employment. Jewish civil servants,
including university professors and schoolteachers, were fired in Germany.]]> 2022-09-01 17:06:36 UTC https://padlet.com/alexiskoch/84yk9719vvh5btaq/wish/2279607869 alexiskoch https://padlet.com/alexiskoch/84yk9719vvh5btaq/wish/2279630012 The Enabling Act gave Hitler dictatorial powers. It also allowed the Reich government to issue laws without the consent of Germany's parliament. ]]> 2022-09-01 17:21:55 UTC https://padlet.com/alexiskoch/84yk9719vvh5btaq/wish/2279630012 alexiskoch https://padlet.com/alexiskoch/84yk9719vvh5btaq/wish/2279645849 The German government issued the Law against Overcrowding in Schools and Universities. This limited the number of Jewish students that attended public schools. This new law limited the number of Jewish students any public schools. The total student population could not consist of more than 5 percent of Jews.]]> 2022-09-01 17:32:44 UTC https://padlet.com/alexiskoch/84yk9719vvh5btaq/wish/2279645849 alexiskoch https://padlet.com/alexiskoch/84yk9719vvh5btaq/wish/2279656508 Gestapo is the abbreviation for Geheime Staatspolizei. It was the official secret police of Nazi Germany and in German-occupied Europe. The force was created by Hermann Göring. To make this he combined the political police agencies of Prussia into one organization.]]> 2022-09-01 17:40:43 UTC https://padlet.com/alexiskoch/84yk9719vvh5btaq/wish/2279656508