Nuremberg Laws During The Holocaust

Millions of people witnessed the crimes of the Holocaust all over Europe in there every day lives. There were numerous people across Europe who willingly collaborated or were complicit in the Nazi crimes during Holocaust. What could motivate so many people to turn against other human beings and treat them as lesser? Why did others not help? There were a lot of people who did help the Jews. Everyone believes in something and has ideas of what they believe to be right or wrong. Most people will stand up for what they believe in. People tend to waver in their support of their beliefs when they come up against scrutiny by a perceived group of power or influence. There are some people who will stand up for what they believe or oppose something

In one of the laws it stated that if you were not of German blood then you were not a citizen of Germany. There were “citizens” and “subjects”. A citizen was a person who was descended from German blood. Then a “subject” was someone with Jewish blood. The laws itself never defined how a person could be a Jew. People became confused about how to classify who were Jews, especially mixed Jews. A law passed called Regulation to the Reich Citizenship Law. In this law a Jew was defined as someone with three or four Jewish grandparents. Also if the person had two full Jewish parents, belonged in the Jewish community, or was married to a Jew, then that person was a Jew. As for mixed Jews the law classified them as someone who was descended from two Jewish grandparents. Another law was that no German girl under the age of forty-five was allowed to be employed in a Jewish house. In section four of the law Jews were banned from raising the German Reich flag, but were allowed to show Jewish colors. All and all these laws were specifically made for Jews so that they could have a miserable

Imaging your family getting killed and no one stopping the people who did it. The Nuremberg Trials showed a great importance of the holocaust but could have been controlled better. After a large amount of criminals got away during the Trials by lying or committing suicide, showed everyone that it had no purpose on stopping the Nazi leaders.

The Nuremberg laws that were announced on September 15, 1935 were about German-Jews had their citizenship taken away, “Jews could only marry Jews or half-Jews, and half-Jews could only marry Jews or other half-Jews. Quarter-Jews could only marry Aryans, although in practice they experienced difficulties in doing so. Marriages between a Jew and an Aryan that had occurred before 1935 were called “privileged mixed marriages” and provided some protection for the Jewish spouse.” You could not have sex with anyone from the Jewish faith, prohibited Jewish households from employing German maids under the age of 45 or any form of domestic help.

Nuremberg Laws: A list of laws that promoted the Nazis and Hitler’s racist ideologies- that Jewish people must register, they were no longer considered Reich citizens, and they were not allowed to have relationships with other non-Jewish Germans.

When Hitler and the Nazi Party came to power on January 30th 1933, the systematic persecution of the Jews began almost immediately. On April 7th, the first major anti-Semitic legislation in Germany was passed, entitled the ‘Law for the Restoration of the Professional Civil Service’. The law served to withdraw the positions of Jews and non-Aryans in various organisations and professions in the civil service. Additional laws in April 1933 prevented Jewish students from sitting high-class exams (E.g. medical dentistry and law exams), and revoked the jobs of those in medical and legal professions. Then, On September 15th 1935, in Nuremberg, the Nazi party announced a major step in clarifying racial policy and removing Jewish influence from Aryan society. At the congress, two new racial laws were passed: ‘The Reich Citizenship Law’ & ‘The Law for the Protection for German Blood and Honour.’ Under these laws, among other issues, Jews were revoked of citizenship, prohibited from engaging in relationships with those of German-blood, and essentially, found themselves pushed to the fringe of society. Collectively, these

Nuremberg Laws: Series of laws passed by the Nazi-dominated German parliament in 1935 that forbade sexual relations between Jews and other Germans and mandated that Jews identify themselves in public by wearing the Star of David.

As Hitler progressed in status and power, so did the discriminatory laws protecting his beloved Germans against the dangerous opposition. The Nuremberg Laws of 1935 separated the Germans and Jews, majorly affecting the citizens lives as this was the first legality put in place to control the Jews daily lives. Within the Nuremberg Laws, the Reich Citizenship law was created which legally differentiated the two races, as if it was a sign to prove that the Germans should know that they were superior to the Jews. The law stated, “A citizen of the Reich is that subject only who is of German or kindred blood and who, through his conduct, shows that he is both desirous and fit

To best understand the Nuremberg laws is it best to see it in two parts; the first part being that any citizen not of the Aryan race was stripped of their German citizenship. This first happened with the Jews but would also affect more groups later. The Nuremberg laws made it so that only kindred blood Germans were citizens and that Jews were only guest in the country (Hill, p67). The second part of the Nuremberg laws is the outlaw of marriage or sexual relations between Jews and Aryans. The first part of the Nuremberg law was the most crucial in the persecution of Jews in Germany. The Nuremberg laws allowed anti-Semitic actions to happen because non-citizens, Jews, could legally be subjected to the actions of the Nazi party (pg 75). The nuremberg

On September 15, 1935, the Nazis set the first law of Nuremberg Laws called “The Reich Citizen Law”, in full force to split the Jews and German. According to the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, the first law said, “…revoke Reich citizenship for Jews… ” and German or related blood were considered German citizen from then

Hitler believed that there was one race with a "natural advantage"2 over the others, and this race was the Aryans. He drew many of his Nazi ideas from Friedrich Nietzsche. Nietzsche was a German philosopher of the late 19th

Origin- The following document containing the Nuremberg Laws originated in Nazi Germany prior to WWII and was published on September 5th, 1935.

The Nazis, who came to power in Germany in January 1933, believed that Germans were “racially superior” and that Jews, were “inferior” and were a “threat” to the German Racial community: this was the idea behind the Holocaust, meaning “sacrifice by fire”. The Jewish population of Europe stood at over nine million in 1933, most of these Jews lived in countries that the Nazis would soon occupy. By 1945, the Germans and collaborators killed two out of every three European Jews as part of the “Final Solution”.

The prosecution at Nuremberg amalgamated a collection of international treaties, conventions, declarations, and agreements upon which to build its foundation for the tribunal’s law (Rosen, ???). In his view, Justice Jackson affirmed that this collection provided criminal statues, which in fact were not ex post facto laws, in that the statues were principles recognized internationally since the dawn of crime and legal code (Linder, ???). Therefore, the original Nuremberg tribunal was a fair application of internationally, including Germany, recognized code to prosecute crimes against peace. Yet, Nuremberg did set a dangerous precedent. If one considers the validity of ex post facto prosection, coupled with victor’s justice, then one may recognize the possibility for abuse and exploitation by an unjust victor.

I enjoyed reading this report, I found it interesting see how it correlates it to the Nuremberg Code. Overall, I believe the principle of respect applies to the beneficence and justice. If you have respect for someone then they will be "reated in an ethical manner not only be respecting their decisions and protecting them from harm" (265). Therefore, justice is "'fairness in distribution'" (265). If one does not have respect then they will not fight for their beneficence and justice. So, I believe respect is the most powerful principle in the report.