Nuremburg Laws During The Holocaust

These laws also defined Jews as anyone who had three or four Jewish Grandparents so many Germans who didn’t even identify themselves as Jews suffered. That includes people raised Christian but had Jewish ancestry. These laws disenfranchised Jews and took away the small amount of dignity they had

Many Germans supported these laws as well, they fire Jews from their jobs, and kick them out of their homes.

Nuremberg Laws – The Nuremburg Laws were laws that prohibited Jews from having a personal life with non-Jews. The laws stated that Jews cannot have a regular job, Jews cannot have intercourse with non-Jews, and Jews also got a special license. The license made it where police could tell if a person was a Jew or not. These laws were announced at the annual Nuremberg and it completely demolished the Jews personal life and stripped them of their equality (USHMM).

The Nuremberg Laws effectively banned the Jews from any citizen rights. The ‘Blood Law’ or Reich’s Citizenship Law banned Jews from marrying Germans, it banned them from sexual relations with Aryans, it banned the Jewish people from displaying the National flag and effectively stripped them of their rights to citizenship. The debate about what defined a Jew tested Hitler in the weeks following the Nuremberg Rally eventually creating the ‘mischlinge’ category of 1st or 2nd degree half Jews, all of which were subject to less but varying degrees of discrimination. The two years that followed were also relatively quiet as far the Jewish question was concerned

Obviously not the first to initiate anti-Jewish policies, the German Nazis began the era of annihilation, or the attempt to kill all European Jews. Adolf Hitler, the leader of the National Socialist Party in Germany, excluded Jews from the protection of German law by allowing Jewish property to be seized and Jews to be sent to concentration camps where they underwent forced labor, torture, and execution.6 Hitler’s anti-Jewish policy continued with the passing of the Nuremberg Laws in 1935 "for the protection of German blood and German honor."7 These laws resulted in Jews losing rights of citizenship and marriage to Aryans, the requirement that Jews carry special identification cards and give their children specific Jewish names, and the framing of the definition of a "Jew" for legal purposes. Through the Nuremberg Laws, Hitler was slowly taking away Jewish liberty and as a result, making it difficult for Jews to resist their annihilation, which unfolded with mass killings and continued until the end of World War II and the operation of death camps. Becoming apparent throughout the Nazi's annihilation of Jews was that "The Germans…were engaged in no random game of terror and

The Nazi law and regulation used to exclude Jews from organizations, professions, and other aspects of public life. On April 7, 1933, the first major law that reduces the rights of Jewish citizen was ‘the Law for the Restoration of the professional civil service. According to the law all non- Aryan specially, Jews were excluded from all civil services including clerical employees and other professionals. At the same day they issued another law that Jews were denied admission

But they were gradually shut out of German society by the Nazis through a never-ending series of laws and decrees, culminating in the Nuremberg Laws of 1935 which deprived them of their German citizenship and forbade intermarriage with non-Jews. They were removed from schools, banned from the professions, excluded from military service, and were even forbidden to share a park bench with a non-Jew.

The main goal of the Nazis pertaining to the European Jews was that of total extermination. At the yearly party rally held in Nuremberg in 1935, the Nazis announced new laws which regulated a large number of the racial speculations common in Nazi philosophy. Two distinct laws passed in Nazi Germany in September 1935 are referred to on a whole as the Nuremberg Laws: the Reich Citizenship Law and the Law for the Assurance of German Blood and German Honor. These laws epitomized large portions of the racial hypotheses supporting Nazi philosophy. They would give the legitimate structure to the orderly abuse of Jews in Germany. The laws rejected German Jews from Reich citizenship and prohibited them from marrying or having sexual relations with persons of "German or related blood." Ancillary ordinances to the laws disenfranchised Jews and denied them of most political rights.

This identity as disgusting, impure creatures helped to set them apart from the pure Aryan race in society. This set up the Aryan race as superior and the Jewish race as inferior. This was reinforced physically through structural discrimination such as the Nuremberg laws and the forced wearing of the Star of David. The Germans the then found a false concreteness in this distinction that the Jews were evil and were ‘rats' who conspired against them. This allowed them to find concreteness in their belief that the Holocaust was legitimate. However, it was false considering that the Jews had fought in the German army and proved their loyalty to the German state. The Germans' perception of the Jews' identity allowed them to deny the freedoms of the Jews. They began by denying the Jews' right to be Germans, which opened the door for other denial of freedoms, such as even the right the life. These included the boycott of Jewish businesses in 1933, the Nuremberg

Jews were forbidden to marry Germans and were required to register themselves as being a Jew. Even those who had converted to Christianity were classified as a Jewish person. Jewish people wore the Star of David on their clothing and could only shop in places where they were welcome. The Nuremburg Race Laws were only the beginning of a long period of the harsh and cruel treatment of Jews.

“Being a Jew or a German is a part of the blood” (Feldman,), this is a statement from the Nuremberg Laws, which was consigned to the Jews in September of 1935 ("United States Holocaust Memorial Museum."). The Nuremberg Laws consisted of five discriminating guidelines such as: 1. “The “Reich Citizenship” (it stated that only a person of “German or related blood” could be a citizen, have political rights, or could hold office), 2. the “Law for the Protection of German Blood and Honor” (this made it illegal for Jews and non-Jews to get married or engaged in sexual relations together), 3. Jews were not allowed to have non-Jewish female servants under forty-five years old, 4. Jews were forbidden to fly the German flag, 5. (being a Jew is a part of a person’s blood) (Feldman,)”. Jews were not able to eat, shop, or even use the restroom in certain places. Children that went to school were taught anti-Semitic lessons, and the Jewish children were taunted and chaffed, not by peers’ alone, but teachers as well. This dreadful method compelled children to refuse attending school ("United States Holocaust Memorial Museum.").

In 1935 however, Jews were excluded from the Armed Forces, shops were destroyed and the Nuremberg Laws were established. These laws excluded German Jews from citizenship within the Reich and also prohibited them from marrying or having sexual relations with people of German blood. With the 1936 Olympics in Berlin, Germany once again had a time period of relative quietness regarding antisemitic policy. This period continued until 1938 when Austria was annexed and the Jewish population increased by about 200,000 (Bauer, 113). Throughout 1938, more laws were established to besiege the Jewish professional. Jewish doctors could no longer treat non-Jew Aryans as of September 1938. Jewish lawyers were forbidden to practice law by November. Both a synagogue in Munich and Nuremberg were destroyed. On June 15, 1,500 Jews who had minor felonies were sent to concentration camps (Bauer, 115). Perhaps the largest pogrom against the Jewish people occurred the night of November 9, 1938. Kristallnacht, as it became known, saw the destruction of 7,000 Jewish businesses, 900 synagogues, and the death of 91 Jews at the hands of the Nazi storm troops. By this time, any Jews remaining in Germany were either stubborn as a mule, or could not overcome the many obstacles which stood in their way of immigrating. Germany was becoming increasingly hostile towards the

According to the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum “the Nuremberg Laws define a "Jew" as someone with three or four Jewish grandparents” (2017). These two laws excluded the Jews from German life and deprived them from their rights. These rights included the right to citizenship and prohibiting marriages between Germans and Jews. Jews in German society had been subjected to prejudices and discrimination. Discriminatory legislation that restricted Jews from a standard life.

In 1935, the Nazis announced new laws that excluded German Jews from Reich citizenship and prohibited them from marrying or having sexual relations with persons of German or “related blood.” These laws were called the Nuremberg Laws. The Nuremberg Laws did not define Jews as people with particular religious beliefs. The new laws also defined “Jews” as someone with three or four Jewish

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