From a legal point of view, the first years of the Nazis in power were very important. Nazi propaganda started with the first phase of the destruction process: defamation. Nazis began to erase the rights of Jews and other party enemies soon after Hitler became Chancellor in January of 1933. To be more specific, on March 23, 1933, the Enabling Act was passed, a law authorizing the government to issue legislation, even if that legislation deviated from the Reich constitution. One example of this legislation is a series of laws that were created for banning "non-Aryans" from civil service, the

In addition, Richard Rubenstein writes:

Her experiences reflect the systematic succession of steps towards social and economic isolation. This procedure was repeated almost identically in every city that fell under the Nazi control.

"...Every day they came out with different laws and orders, we had a curfew, we could only be seen between 9:00 and 5:00 in the afternoon.... We had to wear a yellow star on the chest and on my back...they took away all our lawyers, our writers, our teachers, our clergy, and I could not go to school anymore...they took away our rabbis and we couldn't go to synagogues anymore."

The "ghettoization" is also part of the third phase of the destruction process: concentration. Hilberg points out that the ghettoization of the Jewish community (i.e., the isolation from the surrounding German population) was directed, systematically, by the bureaucracy. He identifies five steps by means of which the ghettos were taking shape. These steps were: (1) the severance of social contacts between Jews and Germans, (2) housing restriction, (3) movement regulations, (4) identification measures, and (5) the institution of Jewish administrative machinery (The Destruction of the European Jews, Hilberg, p 41). Anti-mixing decrees constituted the first phase of the ghettoization process aimed to a social separation. Physical isolation (institution of ghettos) did not begin until 1940.

"The process was a highly complex series of acts which started simply with the bureaucratic definition of who was a Jew. Once defined as a Jew by the German state bureaucracy, a person was progressively deprived of all personal property and citizen rights. The final step in the process came when the Jew was eliminated altogether.

Key to the camp was not only discipline but a system of regulations: what happened if you step over the line, what happened if you get closer to a guard, what happened if a guard mistreated a prisoner, etc. It was a system of regulations for the administration and maintenance of discipline and order. Reason for punishment had to be crystal clear; guards were subject to penalties also (Class notes, July 17). Everything was prescribed through regulation manuals, through the Dachau Training books. With this multiform bureaucracy, Dachau became the model for concentration camps. According to Dr. Bolkosky, here is when the union of a potentially violent ideology and the reality of its implementation occurred. Ideology met real world. Racist fanaticism met bureaucratic efficiency (class notes, July 17). This strict order and the detailed written set of regulations reveal up to what point the bureaucracy was involved in the extermination, which was the fourth phase in the destruction process. No details were left out with respect to when, who and how to punish either prisoners or guards. No doubt that, in order to kill six million Jews, an ideology of racial cleansing is not enough. It needs a structure behind supporting it; this structure was the wide range, complex, almost scientific bureaucracy. Hilb

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