Nuremberg Laws
On 15 September 1935, the Nazi-controlled Reichstag, convened in Nuremberg during the Party rally, unanimously passed two laws that stripped Jews of German citizenship and prohibited marriage and sexual relations between Jews and non-Jews. The Reich Citizenship Law created a two-tier system of 'citizens' (Aryan Germans with full political rights) and 'state subjects' (Jews and others), formally excluding approximately 500,000 German Jews from the national community. The Law for the Protection of German Blood and German Honour imposed criminal penalties on 'racial mixing'. Supplementary decrees issued in November 1935 extended the definitions to Sinti, Roma, and Black Germans. The laws formalised racial persecution that had been proceeding through mob violence and administrative discrimination since 1933, and provided the bureaucratic foundation for the systematic exclusion and ultimately the extermination that followed.
- Year: 1935 CE
- Category: Political
