Category
page 1Emergency laws in Germany
Enabling Act of 1933
German law which transferred power from the Reichstag and the Weimar President to Adolf Hitler and his Cabinet
Reichstag Fire Decree
1933 decree in Nazi Germany that abolished key civil liberties for citizens
Article 48 of the Weimar Constitution
article of the Weimar Constitution, which allowed the Reich president to take emergency measures
Feindstrafrecht
German Emergency Acts
emergency laws passed in 1968 that solicited protests
State of defence
constitutional state of emergency in Germany if the country is "under attack by armed force or imminently threatened with such an attack"