Shoah

1st edition. Original wraps bound inside pamphlet protector. 8vo. 50, [1] pages. 22 cm. Very early publication from just after Hitler was given emergency powers, exposing the immediate systematic persecution of German Jews by the Nazi regime. (On 30 January 1933 Hitler became Chancellor; in the March 1933 elections, no single party secured a majority. Hitler called on Reichstag members to vote for the Enabling Act on March 24, 1933, and he was granted plenary powers "temporarily" by the passage of the Act. [54] The law gave him the freedom to act without parliamentary consent and even without constitutional limitations) . Published in April 1933 by two British Jewish organizations reporting on official acts of anti-Jewish persecution in Germany by the newly empowered Nazi government. Contents: Nazi Propaganda before 1933, Nazi Pronouncements in 1933, Nazi Outrages, the Persecution of the Jews by the Nazi Government, and British Opinion. With five appendices: The Jewish Population of Germany; General Ludendorff's Manifesto to the Jews of Poland; Extract from the German Government's Letter to the Peace Conference, May 1919; Extract from the German-Polish Convention of May 15th, 1922, regarding upper Silesia; Einstein and Germany. The US Holocaust Museum keeps their copy of this item in their Rare Books Center. Subjects: Jews - Germany. Jews - Persecutions. Jews. Jews – Persecutions. Bookplate on title page, Very Good Condition (HOLO2-126-14B)