

Nazi Law: Legally Blind
When the Nazi Party came to power in Germany in 1933, its goal was to establish a nation ruled by laws of injustice. The Nazis immediately used legislation and the courts to create laws that served their hate-filled agenda. As head of the Nazi Party, Adolf Hitler was given the unlimited powers of a dictator. Step by step, citizenship rights were revoked for German Jews, who were forbidden from practicing law and medicine or marrying German citizens. Other groups of people were also frequent targets of the Nazis. Laws targeted Jehovah's witnesses, Catholics, communists, political dissidents, and the mentally handicapped. These groups, who…
When the Nazi Party came to power in Germany in 1933, its goal was to establish a nation ruled by laws of injustice. The Nazis immediately used legislation and the courts to create laws that served their hate-filled agenda. As head of the Nazi Party, Adolf Hitler was given the unlimited powers of a dictator. Step by step, citizenship rights were revoked for German Jews, who were forbidden from practicing law and medicine or marrying German citizens. Other groups of people were also frequent targets of the Nazis. Laws targeted Jehovah's witnesses, Catholics, communists, political dissidents, and the mentally handicapped. These groups, who were considered disloyal to the state or physically or racially inferior, were deprived of their rights and very often their lives under these Nazi laws.
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