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11.	Speech by the Social Democrat Otto Wels against the Passage of the "Enabling Act" (March 23, 1933) By the time Hitler proposed the "Enabling Act", the National Socialists had virtually smashed....
12.	The "Enabling Act" (March 24, 1933) Hitler had decided to build his dictatorship through a largely legal process. His next important step along that road was to emasculate the Reichstag by transferring its legislative authority to....
13.	Joseph Goebbels: Two Speeches on the Tasks of the Reich Ministry for Popular Enlightenment and Propaganda (March 15 / March 25, 1933) After the new Reich Ministry for Popular Enlightenment and Propaganda was established on March 13, 1933, Joseph Goebbels was charged with “coordinating” and controlling the content of the press,....
14.	Victor Klemperer’s Diary Entry on the Impending Boycott of Jewish Businesses (March 31, 1933) The picture of the world propagated by Hitler and the NSDAP interpreted the history of humankind as a constant, bitter struggle between superior and inferior races. The regime regarded Jews as the....
15.	Law for the Restoration of the Professional Civil Service (April 7, 1933) During the first years of the Hitler regime, Germany’s Jewish population suffered arbitrary violence and harassment – especially from the SA. Discriminatory laws and regulations aimed at their socioeconomic....
16.	Correspondence between Wilhelm Furtwängler and Joseph Goebbels about Art and the State (April 1933) The Reich Minister for Popular Enlightenment and Propaganda, Joseph Goebbels, followed the call for....
17.	Circular from Dr. Robert Ley, Staff Chief of NSDAP Political Organizations, on the Action to "Coordinate" [Gleichschaltungaktion] the Free Trade Unions (April 21, 1933) Hitler aimed not only to secure complete control over all sources of state authority: he also sought the total mobilization of the general population behind the Nazi cause. To that end, he demanded....
18.	The Book Burning: Report by Louis P. Lochner, Head of the Berlin Bureau of the Associated Press (May 10, 1933) In May and June 1933, the National Socialist German Students’ League [Nationalsozialistischer Deutscher Studentenbund or NSDStB] and the German Student Body [Deutsche Studentenschaft....
19.	Excerpt from the Minutes of a Conference of Ministers (July 14, 1933) In 1933, Hitler promised to protect the rights and authority of the churches, but in actuality he pursued their "coordination" [Gleichschaltung]. The Catholic Church ultimately gave in to....
20.	Law for the Prevention of Offspring with Hereditary Diseases (July 14, 1933) The Nazi regime’s conception of politics was exemplified by Rudolf Heß’s (1894-1987) pronouncement that National Socialism was “applied racial....
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