Nuremberg Laws

The 1935 Nazi laws that stripped Jews of German citizenship and prohibited marriage and sexual relations between Jews and people classified as German-blooded.

Reich Citizenship Law: A 1935 law that reserved full German citizenship for people of German or related blood and stripped Jews of political rights. It defined Jews as subjects rather than citizens and supplied the laws’ central citizenship rule.
Nazi antisemitism: The racial and political hatred of Jews promoted by the Nazi movement and regime. The laws gave this ideology binding legal form.
Aryanization: The forced transfer of Jewish-owned businesses and property to non-Jews under Nazi rule. The laws helped isolate Jews before escalating state-directed expropriation.
Victor Klemperer: A German Jewish philologist whose diaries document life under Nazi rule. His diaries record how legal persecution shaped everyday life for a German Jew.
Weimar Constitution: The 1919 constitution of the German Republic, which established civil rights and parliamentary government. Its formal equality before the law stood against the Nuremberg Laws’ racial hierarchy.
Law for the Protection of German Blood and German Honor: A 1935 law banning marriage and sexual relations between Jews and people classified as German-blooded. It imposed the laws’ racial restrictions on intimate relationships.
Nazi Party Rally of 1935: The September 1935 rally in Nuremberg at which the Nazi regime announced the laws. The regime unveiled the legislation during this rally.
Kristallnacht: The Nazi-organized pogrom against Jews across Germany and Austria on 9–10 November 1938. The violence followed years of legal exclusion under the laws.
Nuremberg: A city in Bavaria that hosted major Nazi Party rallies and the postwar war-crimes trials. The laws took their name from the city where the regime announced them.
Nazi racial laws: Legislation that classified people by ancestry and restricted their rights under Nazi rule. The Nuremberg Laws were foundational statutes within this broader body of legislation.

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