Nuremberg Laws
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The Nuremberg Laws were a series of antisemitic laws enacted by Nazi Germany that stripped Jewish people of their citizenship, rights, and legal protections. They matter because they represent a systematic legal framework for discrimination that preceded and enabled the Holocaust, demonstrating how governments can use legislation to persecute specific groups of people.
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Title page of the German government gazette Reichsgesetzblatt issue proclaiming the laws, published on 16 September 1935 (RGBl. I No. 100) The Nuremberg Laws (Nürnberger Gesetze, pronounced [ˈnʏʁnbɛʁɡɐ ɡəˈzɛtsə] ) were antisemitic and racist laws introduced in Nazi Germany on 15 September 1935 at a special session of the Reichstag during the annual Nuremberg Rally of the Nazi Party. The legislation comprised two measures. The Law for the Protection of German Blood and German Honour prohibited marriages and sexual relations between Jews and Germans and barred Jewish households from employing German women under the age of 45. The Reich Citizenship Law restricted citizenship to people of "German or related blood", reducing others to state subjects without full rights.
A supplementary decree issued on 14 November 1935 defined who was legally considered Jewish and brought the Reich Citizenship Law into effect. On 26 November, further regulations extended the measures to "Gypsies, Negroes, and their bastards", classifying them with Jews as "enemies of the race-based state".