The Nuremberg Race Laws are Passed
1935 · 20th Century
On September 15, 1935, the Reichstag unanimously passed two statutes during the annual Nazi Party rally in Nuremberg. The Reich Citizenship Law stripped Jews of citizenship, reducing them to state subjects without political rights. The Law for the Protection of German Blood and German Honor prohibited marriages and sexual relations between Jews and non-Jewish Germans. A November 1935 supplementary decree defined Jewish identity by grandparentage rather than religious practice. The laws also targeted Roma and Black Germans, providing the legal architecture for systematic persecution that escalated over the following decade.
Key Figures
Hermann GöringAdolf HitlerWilhelm FrickFranz Gürtner
Locations
BerlinNuremberg
Topics
jewsnuremberg lawsholocaustGermanynazi germany
Connected Events — 3 Connections
The Nuremberg Laws' precise racial definitions and citizenship exclusions became the administrative foundation for identifying and cataloging victims during the Holocaust's systematic planning at Wannsee The Wannsee Conference
The Nuremberg Laws' legal definition of who was Jewish and their exclusion from civil society provided the ideological and practical framework that enabled the coordinated violence of Kristallnacht three years later Kristallnacht
Hitler's appointment as Chancellor provided the constitutional authority and governmental apparatus necessary to enact the Nuremberg Laws two years later, transforming anti-Semitic ideology into systematic legal persecution Adolf Hitler Becomes Chancellor of Germany
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