Hitler's Ascent to Power and the Nuremberg Race Laws
Pictured is a snippet of the Nuremberg Race Laws.
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With all classes now united against the Weimar Republic, a power vacuum was left open for a strong political figurehead to assume control of a new party to promise change to the German people. This man would be Adolf Hitler, but he would prove to be no simple figurehead as Weimar leaders had hoped. The last president of the Weimar Republic, President Paul von Hindenburg, was pressured into ceding control of the government to Hitler in 1933, beginning the Nazi’s reign of terror. The Nuremberg race laws were quickly instituted just two years later to cease the extension of citizenship to anyone who was not an ethnic German male. The snippet pictured above entails the prevention of Jewish peoples from obtaining any government offices receiving any benefits from the state. [3]
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[3] United States Holocaust Memorial Museum. “The Nuremberg Race Laws.” Holocaust Encyclopedia, photograph taken, and document ratified in 1935. Accessed 9 October 2020. https://encyclopedia.ushmm.org/content/en/article/nuremberg-laws.
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