e in Berlin to vote on the Enabling Act. The vote was taken, 441 for and only 84 against. Democracy was ended in Germany, and Hitler became dictator legally. For the first time, Adolf Hitler turned his attention to the driving force, which had propelled him into politics in the first place, his hatred of the Jews. Hitler said, “What we must fight for is to safeguard the existence and reproduction of our race and our people, the sustenance of our children and the purity of our blood, the freedom and independence of the fatherland, so that our people may mature for the fulfillment of the mission allotted it by the creator of the universe”(Hitler 214). He wanted to make sure that Jewish people and really anyone other than Aryans would be wiped out. This began with a boycott on April 1, 1933, and would end years later in the greatest tragedy in all of human history.During the years after Hitler took control he set about the “Nazification” of Germany and its release from the armament restrictions of the Versailles Treaty. Censorship covered all aspects of life including the press, films, radio, books, and art. The churches were persecuted and ministers who preached non-Nazi doctrine were frequently arrested and carted off to concentration camps. The Jewish population was increasingly persecuted and ostracized form society. Under the Nuremberg Laws of September 1935 Jews were no longer considered to be German Citizens and therefore no longer had any legal rights. Jews were no longer allowed to hold public office, not allowed to work in the civil service, the media, farming, teaching, the stock exchange and eventually barred from practicing law or medicine. Hitler geared the German economy towards war. Hitler ordered the army to be tripled in size, from the 100,000 man Versailles Treaty limit, to 300,000 men by October of 1934. This was initially ordered to be carried out under the utmost secrecy. The chie...
