Martin Niemöeller (1892-1984), prisoner of Dachau

A great deal in the world has changed since the collapse of the Nazi regime in 1945. The world was taught a very harsh and brutal, but valuable lesson in terms of how important things we take for granted are. Things such as free speech, freedom of the press, and freedom of thought, are rights and freedoms, although ‘guaranteed’ by constitutions, can easily be taking away from us by the government, such as was witnessed in post-September 11 United States, with the passing of the Patriot’s Act. However, the amount of controversy that surrounded this bill was great, unlike the seemingly open complacency in which the majority of t

The Reich Citizenship Law, which was included in the legislation of the ‘Nuremberg Laws,’ took away any rights Jews had in terms of Reich Citizenship. This was an extension of German Citizenship, and meant that Jews did not have the right to vote (which Reich Citizens did). As well, under the Reich Citizenship Law, and the Law for the Protection of German Blood and German Honour, the Reich Ministry of the Interior was able to legislate and actively enforce these laws against people who were considered completely Jewish or half-Jew (which meant they were affiliated to the Jewish religious community and were not in a mixed marriage). Other laws which were passed under the ‘Nuremberg Laws’ included Rassenschande, which was sexual intercourse between an ‘Aryan’ and a ‘non—Aryan’ a punishable offence, as well as restrictions on who can be act as a servant to a Jew. In order to justify these laws, Nazi lawmakers established precedent for these laws based on regulations dating back to the 15th century.

What seems to be the most shocking aspect of this law, which as a result made Germany a totalitarian state, was that the Nazi party was able to achieve this status with little opposition from other political parties. In conclusion, the Nazi party was able to relinquish any sort of democratic reasonability the Reichstag had within four months of its election.

On April 7, Hitler’s government issued new legislation, which dismissed all local governments from power and appointed Reich Governors in their place, with the power to create new local governments as they saw fit. These new Reich Governors were also govern the power to appoint or dismiss any state official or judge. As well, all Reich Governors were expected, as a Nazi, to fulfill any order given out by the head of the Nazi party, and perform “the general policy laid down by the Reich Chancellor.”

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