JS-3100 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Paul Von Hindenburg, Jewish Emancipation, Mass Hysteria

• School: Vanderbilt University
• Department: Jewish Studies
• Course: JS-3100
• Professor: Smith Helmut

Document Summary

Those in power thought that if hitler was elected chancellor, they would be able to control him (this is not what happens) In many ways, the assumption of power was legal (illegal actions happen around it, but the voting is legal: the reichstag fire, february 27, 1933, the meeting place of the legislature, debate over who started the fire. A deranged dutch communist (and nazi"s took advantage) Regardless, the communists are blamed; a kind of hysteria ensues: the following day, nazi party issues an order that limits basic rights. In the course of april, a series of small-scale acts against jews enacted (ex. law limiting number of jewish students in school (percent in school parallels percent in population); German sports and athletic associations adopt an aryan clause with exception to combat veterans: may 10, 1933--public burning of books considered to be "non-german," largely organized by.