Law of the Weimar Republic

German constitution of 1919

German law which transferred power from the Reichstag and the Weimar President to Adolf Hitler and his Cabinet

provision of the German Criminal Code forbidding homosexual acts, repealed 1994

1933 decree in Nazi Germany that abolished key civil liberties for citizens

punitive flight tax imposed on Jews by Hitler's Nazi government

article of the Weimar Constitution, which allowed the Reich president to take emergency measures

thumb|upright|Ferdinand II, Holy Roman Emperor|Ferdinand II's Reichsexekution against Saxony and Bavaria in 1620 In German history, a Reichsexekution (sometimes "Reich execution" in English) was an imperial or federal intervention against a member state, using military force if necessary. The instrument of the Reichsexekution was constitutionally available to the central governments of the Holy Roman Empire (800–1806), the German Empire of 1848–1849, the German Empire of 1871–1918, the Weimar Republic (1918–1933) and Nazi Germany (1933–1945). Under the German Confederation (1815–1866) and the

constitution of the Free State of Prussia

Failed 1926 German referendum