The Nuremburg Laws And The Anti-Semitic Laws Of The Nazi Party

John Heywood once said that Rome was not built in one day, and neither was the Nazi Regime, it took a lot time and strategy in order for Adolf Hitler to rise to power. Hitler would not have become so powerful if it were not for the laws that were put in place after World War Two. A lot of the reason that Hitler was so successful was because of his timing in history and the way he manipulated the German government. Once the Nazi movement was becoming more popular and earning a strong reputation, they had a growing influence on the German people, which meant they would have an easier time creating the government that Hitler favored. There were two laws that sprung the Nazi Party into action of fulfilling their goals of exterminating the surplus people. The first was the Enabling Act of 1933,
The Reich Citizenship Law and the Law for the Protection of German Blood and German Honor are the two laws that make up the Nuremburg Laws. Together, these laws are what make up the legal framework for the discrimination of Jews. It is undoubtable that anti-Semitism is the backbone of the Nazi Party and without these laws they would have a much harder time achieving their goals of discriminating against the Jewish Community. The Reich Citizenship Laws defined what it meant to be a German and what it meant to be a Jew. Nazi’s didn’t view the Jews as members of a religious or cultural community rather as a race defined by birth. This made it easier to decide who should be included in the Jewish community and ultimately this lead to more power for the Nazi Party. The Nuremburg Laws were what helped Hitler and the Nazi Party spread the idea of anti-Semitism throughout Germany and even bordering countries with the goal to have the general public accept the discrimination of Jews and eventually the