Deja Wilder & Asmara HadiMiss. Copenbarger, Room#204Honors World History, Period 6

THE NUREMBERG

LAWS

WHAT ARE THE NUREMB

ERG LAWS???

?

• Passed in September 15th,1935 by the Reichstag

• Anti-Semitic/Anti-Jewish

• First major step of systematically removing the Jewish community out of Aryan /German Society.

• Stripping Jews of…Civil Rights and CitizenshipCompletely denying human rights

• Building block of the Holocaust

• After Hitler seized power, he immediately suppress the Jewish Community.

• Declared a National Boycott of Jewish businesses on April 1st 1933 and on April 7th Hitler passed the Law for the Restoration of the Professional Civil Services.

• On May 10th , was a nationwide book burning. Books considered NON-GERMAN, which considered Jewish authors were burned.

• Because of these laws the Jewish citizen were harassed and subjected to violent attacks on a daily.

2 Jewish Men being harassed by a Nazi Soldiers

WHY WERE THE

NUREMBERG LAWS

CREATED?

Hitler believed that the Jews were the problem of the country of Germany

and the German people and believed that they must be destroyed.

Racial Classification Under the

Nuremberg Laws

RACE LAWS• Individual w/ 3 or more Jewish

grandparents classified as full Jew

• 2 Jewish grandparents who were baptized into Protestant or Catholic tradition known simply as Mischlinge

• Individuals who married to a Jew or been members in Jewish community referred to as Geltungsjuden.

• Under the Law of Protection of German Blood & German Honour -Marriage or any form of relationship between Jews and Germans is forbidden

- Marriage or any form of relationship between Germans and Mischlinge; Jews and Mischlinge of second degree; and two Mischlinge of the second degree is allowed,but they would have to classify themselves as Jewish.

- All marriages undertaken between half-Jews and Germans must have the approval of a Committee for the Protection of German Blood.

-Only a few were granted.

-Persons suspected of having sexual relations with non-Aryans were charged with  Rassenschande (racial defilement) and tried in the regular courts.

  -Persons accused of this crime were publicly humiliated by being put into a parade through the streets with a placard around their necks detailing the crime. 

-Those convicted were typically sentenced to prison terms, or to concentration camps

- As the law did not permit capital punishment for racial defilement, special courts were convened to allow the death penalty for some cases.

-From the end of 1935 through 1940, 1,911 people were convicted of Rassenschande. Over time, the law was extended to include non-sexual forms of physical contact such as greeting someone with a kiss or an embrace.

A man being humiliated on the streets for having a relationship with a Jewish

woman

HOW DID THE

NUREMBERG LAWS

IMPACT THE JEWISH

PEOPLE?

Beginning in 1941, Jews were required by law to self-identify by wearing a yellow badge on their clothing.

If you were caught without the badge you will have to pay a steep fine and later on you were just immediately shot or killed.

In Nazi Germany this was considered the badge of shame.

Three Jewish businessmen are forced to march down a crowded Leipzig street while carrying signs reading: "Don't buy from Jews. Shop in German businesses!" Leipzig, Germany, 1935.

With Hitler's orders Jews stores were boycott.

Because of the boycotts Jews businesses lost a lot revenue.

Many Jewish businesses had to be closed down because a lack of customers.

The End

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