Slavery finally was abolished in Martinique, Guadeloupe, French Guiana, and Runion by the government that came to power after the 1848 revolution, spurred by slave uprisings in the colonies. A year later legislation passed granting the owners of France's 248,560 slaves compensation from a sum of $120 million francs.
The Enabling Act gave Hitler plenary powers. It followed on the heels of the Reichstag Fire Decree, which abolished most civil liberties and transferred state powers to the Reich government. The combined effect of the two laws was to transform Hitler's government into a de facto legal dictatorship.n 1942, the Reichstag passed a law giving Hitler power of life and death over every citizen, effectively extending the provisions of the Enabling Act for the duration of the war. Ironically, two, and possibly three, of the penultimate measures Hitler took to consolidate his power in 1934 violated the Enabling Act.
The Nuremberg Laws is the common name for two very fundamental pieces of anti-Semitic legislation, which were issued in connection with the Nazi Party s annual party rally in Nuremberg in September 1935.The two laws, and, were to regulate two very important aspects of Jewish life within the German Reich: The Jews were excluded because of their race. 2  The Law for the Protection of the German Blood & Honour prohibited marriage or sexual relations between Aryans and non-Aryans, among other things. 3  This race-hygienic law was issued in order to protect the German blood from being mixed with that of lesser races.