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In 1935, the German parliament approved a set of laws called the Nuremberg Laws. What did the Nuremberg Laws do?
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The Nuremberg Laws, passed in 1935, were a set of racial laws in Nazi Germany designed to institutionalize and codify racial discrimination against Jews. The laws had two primary components:
1. **The Law for the Protection of German Blood and German Honor**: This law prohibited marriages and sexual relations between Jews and non-Jewish Germans. It aimed to maintain what the Nazis considered the purity of the "Aryan" race.
2. **The Reich Citizenship Law**: This law stripped Jews of their German citizenship, relegating them to the status of subjects without full legal rights. It defined a Jew based on racial ancestry rather than religious beliefs, identifying anyone with three or four Jewish grandparents as a Jew.
The Nuremberg Laws were a key step in the broader Nazi agenda of anti-Semitism and persecution, leading to severe social, economic, and legal discrimination against Jews in Germany, laying the groundwork for the more extreme measures that would follow, including the Holocaust.
1. **The Law for the Protection of German Blood and German Honor**: This law prohibited marriages and sexual relations between Jews and non-Jewish Germans. It aimed to maintain what the Nazis considered the purity of the "Aryan" race.
2. **The Reich Citizenship Law**: This law stripped Jews of their German citizenship, relegating them to the status of subjects without full legal rights. It defined a Jew based on racial ancestry rather than religious beliefs, identifying anyone with three or four Jewish grandparents as a Jew.
The Nuremberg Laws were a key step in the broader Nazi agenda of anti-Semitism and persecution, leading to severe social, economic, and legal discrimination against Jews in Germany, laying the groundwork for the more extreme measures that would follow, including the Holocaust.