Why Is The Enabling Act Important To Hitler

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The Enabling Act
I wonder why so many people take their rights for granted? The Holocaust was the systematic, bureaucratic state-sponsored persecution and murder of approximately six million Jews and five million others by the Nazi regime and its collaborates.(Flynn Notes) The Nazis decided that certain people should not live and worked toward killing them while they were in power from 1933-1945. After World War Two finished the rest of the world discovered the horrors of what had been going on in Germany and their occupied territory. Once the Enabling Act was put into place Hitler placed a forced emigration policy on Jews. Once no more Jews were emigrating he went on with the first solution. The Enabling Act were laws that were passed to …show more content…

The Enabling Act ( The Law to Remedy the Distress of the People and the Reich) was passed March 23rd 1933(The Second Front). The act was to have huge consequences for the citizens of Germany(www.ushmm.org). Nazi members publicly declared that their intention to segregate Jews… and to abrogate Jews political, legal, and civil rights( www.ushmm.org). The Enabling Act took civil rights away from religious groups that were seen as a danger to society. The Enabling Act lead to the emigration of Jews and other religious groups.
Once the Enabling Act was put in place this caused a forced emigration policy on all Jews. From 1933 until October 23 1941 Nazi Germany pursued a policy of forced Jewish emigration. At the same time, the Nazis viewed the Jews belongings as there financial capital as German Property, and they had no intention of allowing refugees to take anything of material value with them(www.historylearningsite.co.uk).Many nations in which German sought asylum imposed significant obstacles to immigration application processes for entry visas were elaborate. While this was going the Jewish resistance was fighting against