Dictatorship under the Third Reich & Persecution of

German Jews

1. Weimar Republic

2. January 30, 1933

3. February 2, 1933

4. March 20, 1933

5. April 11, 1933

Reichstag burns on February 3, 1933.

Nazi idea of the “Aryan” race.

German citizens are stopped and searched by plain-clothes and uniformed police in March 1933 under the pretext they might be concealing weapons.

6. April 24, 1933

7. May 10, 1933

8. July 1933

Journalist Carl von Ossietzky finds himself in the grips of the Gestapo. As editor-in-chief of Die Weltbühne (The World Stage) newspaper Ossietzky spoke out against

militarism and fascism. Arrested the day after the Reichstag fire, he remained in Gestapo custody for five years, despite receiving the 1935 Nobel Peace Prize.

Although in poor health, he was subjected to harsh treatment in concentration camps and finally succumbed to tuberculosis in May 1938.

May 10, 1933 - An event unseen since the Middle Ages occurs as German students from universities formerly regarded as among the finest in the world, gather in Berlin and other German cities to burn books with "unGerman" ideas. Books by Freud, Einstein, Thomas Mann, Jack London, H.G. Wells and many others go up in flames as they give the Nazi salute.

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15. Between 1933-1939

16. September 15, 1935

17. October 1938

18. November 8-9, 1938

The Nuremberg Rally on September 15, 1935 during which the Nuremberg Laws were decreed.

At left, a Jewish synagogue burns during Kristallnacht. At right, Jewish businesses in ruins after Kristallnacht.

November 8-9, 1938