The Coming of the Third Reich

The Anti-Socialist Laws were a series of legislative acts that lasted from 1878 to 1881. Justified by two failed assassination attempts against Kaiser Wilhelm I, the laws sought to weaken the socialist Social Democratic Party. Their measures included a ban on public meetings and certain emblems, press censorship, and restrictions on trade unions.

The Centre Party was one of the mainstream parties of the German Empire and the Weimar Republic. The party was primarily a political party representing German Catholics but, true to its name, it also represented centrist and moderate right-wing political and social views.

A concordat is any formal set of agreements between the Catholic Church and a secular government. In 1933, one such concordat was agreed between Nazi Germany and the Catholic Church in an attempt to guarantee the independence of the Catholic clergy.