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Online Module: The Holocaust and Fundamental Rights

Paving the way to the Holocaust through fundamental rights violations

  • Chapter 1: Hitler in “Mein Kampf“ on “human rights“
  • Chapter 2: Did Hitler assume power in a legal way?
  • Chapter 3: The Reichstag Fire Decree
  • Chapter 4: "Protective Custody" (Schutzhaft)
  • Chapter 5: The Ordinance against treachery (Heimtückeverordnung)
  • Chapter 6: The Enabling Act (Ermächtigungsgesetz)
  • Chapter 7: The enforced conformity of the civil service and the ban on the trade unions
  • Chapter 8: The ban of the trade unions
  • Chapter 9: The night of the long knives
  • Chapter 10: Gleichschaltung
Chapter 1: Hitler in “Mein Kampf“ on “human rights“

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This presentation explores the role of fundamental rights violations in the process of the establishment of the Nazi dictatorship in Germany.

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Reichstag Elections 5 March 1933
 Bundesarchiv.
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“Protective custody” (Schutzhaft), September 1935.
“Protective custody” (Schutzhaft), 1937.
 Thüringisches Staatsarchiv Altenburg.
 Thüringisches Staatsarchiv Altenburg.
“Protective custody” (Schutzhaft) of 17-year-old Günther Discher, imprisoned 1943 in the Moringen youth concentration camp because of collecting and selling jazz records.
 Staatsarchiv Würzburg.
 Bildarchiv Preußischer Kulturbesitz.
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The emergence of the dictatorship was a process driven by political decisions and legislative measures, but also by massive violence. With the establishment of a full-fledged dictatorship, no political organisation or societal institution remained in Germany that was willing and able to prevent the regime from committing genocide and crimes against humanity.

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