Transcript The Nuremberg Race Laws of 1935

The Nuremberg Race Laws of 1935
By Anna Smoot
Vocabulary
• Aryan - A person of Germanic heritage (blond hair and blue
eyes)
• Reich -the German state
• Michlinge – a person with two or one Jewish
grandparents(half-breeds)
Nuremberg Rally
• The Nazis hold an annual party rally in Nuremburg
• The rally inn 1935 was held from September 9th to 15th
• The radical anti-Semites suggested that Hitler announces a
new law concerning the Jews at the rally
This is the rally at
Nuremberg in 1935.
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The First Law
“The Reich Citizenship Law”
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This law designates Jews as “subjects” in Hitler’s Reich, not citizens
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Only people of German or kindred(related) blood are able to be citizens of
the Reich and are fit to be citizens of the Reich
The Second Law
“The Law for Protection of the German Blood and German
Honor”
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Jews were forbidden to marry Aryans or have sexual relations with them
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If a German and a Jew were married before the Nuremberg Laws were
announced, the marriage was void
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If a German and a Jew were married outside of Germany, the marriage
was still void
- Jews were also not permitted to employ female citizens of kindred or
German blood as servants
Punishments
- Anyone who disobeyed the”Law for the Protection of German Blood and
German Honor” was punished with imprisonment, hard labor or with a fine
Other Laws
“The Law for the Protection of the Genetic Health of the
German People”
-Anyone who wanted to marry had to have a medical examination to
see if they were disease free
- If a person was found disease a “Certificate of Fitness to Marry” was
issued
Classification of a Jew
- The Nazis decreed that a
“full Jew” is someone with at
least Jewish grandparents.
Even if the person practiced
Christianity, they were still
classified as a Jew.
- Anyone with one or two
Jewish grandparents was
classified as a Mischlinge
(half-breed)
-- First Degree
Mischlinge - two
Jewish
grandparents
-- Second Degree
Misclinge - one
Jewish grandparent
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Memorial Museum
- On their identity cards, Jews
were required to have a red “J”
stamped in the middle to identify
them as Jews.
This chart was
issued to help
distinguish Jews
from Mischlinge,
and Aryans
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Memorial Museum
Other People Affected
- The Nuremberg Laws also extended to other groups
- Roma(Gypsies), blacks and their offspring were some of these groups
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Works Cited
United States Holocaust Memorial M
n.d. Web. 21 Jan. 2011. <http://www.ushmm.org>
in Europe.