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Chapter

The National Socialist Revolution

Consider the factors that made it possible for the Nazis to transform Germany into a dictatorship during their first year in power.

The Parade of the Political Administrators in Nuremberg, Germany.
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Lesson

Laws and the National Community

Students are introduced to the Nazis’ idea of a “national community” and examine how the Nazis used the Nuremberg Laws to define who belonged.

In 1933, Jewish businessman Oskar Danker and his girlfriend, a Christian woman, were forced to carry signs discouraging Jewish-German integration. Intimate relationships between “true Germans” and Jews were outlawed by 1935.