Holocaust Educational Trust Citizenship Resource

Activity 3: Nazi Laws - Matching Task

The Nazis were not interested in justice for all Germans.

Work through the following activities to help you understand some of the background to how the Nazis created such unjust laws.

Match the beginnings and endings of these sentences. The beginnings are in the correct order.

Beginning of the sentence	End of the sentence
On January 30^th Adolf Hitler came to power as Chancellor of Germany at the head of a	…burnt down.
President Hindenburg was convinced he would be able to control Hitler and his…	…Communists
Soon after the Nazis came to power, the Reichstag (German parliament) building was …	…coalition government.
The Nazis blamed this on a young Dutch man called …	…leaders.
This gave the Nazi party the excuse to arrest 4, 000 Communist…	…pass an Emergency Decree.
They said Marinus van der Lubbe was working for the …	…Nazi party.
They also pressurised President Hindenburg to…	…under Nazi control.
The Emergency Decree put the press and public meetings…	…Marinus van der Lubbe.