Nazi Law: Legally Blind
When the Nazis seized power in 1933, their aim was to establish an unjust nation governed by discriminatory laws. Hitler, as Nazi leader, became an all-powerful dictator. German Jews gradually lost citizenship rights, barred from law, medicine, and marrying Germans. Other groups like Jehovah's Witnesses, Catholics, and dissidents also suffered, stripped of rights and often lives under Nazi laws.
When the Nazis seized power in 1933, their aim was to establish an unjust nation governed by discriminatory laws. Hitler, as Nazi leader, became an all-powerful dictator. German Jews gradually lost citizenship rights, barred from law, medicine, and marrying Germans. Other groups like Jehovah's Witnesses, Catholics, and dissidents also suffered, stripped of rights and often lives under Nazi laws.
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