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The Nuremberg laws passed by the Nazis in 1935 were not only aimed at restricting the Jewish rights and property, but also marriages between Jews and Aryans. The laws argued that any German who married a Jew was inferior and any children they bore should be treated no better than the Jews. [ 11 ]
By 1935, the Jews in particular had become second-class citizens within Germany. This was both due to laws passed by the Nazi Party and the attitude of the Gentile population. The number of boycotts of Jewish business, throughout the 1930s, showed the antisemitic tendency within the German population. [ 13 ]
At their annual party rally held in Nuremberg, 10 to 16 September 1935, the Nazi leaders announced a set of three new laws to further regulate and exclude Jews from German society. [12] These laws now known as the Nuremberg laws served also as the legality for the arrests and violence against Jews that would follow. [13]
A chart depicting the Nuremberg Laws that were enacted in 1935. From 1933 to 1945, the Nazi regime ruled Germany and, at times, controlled almost all of Europe. During this time, Nazi Germany shifted from the post-World War I society which characterized the Weimar Republic and introduced an ideology of "biological racism" into the country's legal and justicial systems. [1]
The two Nuremberg Laws were unanimously passed by the Reichstag on 15 September 1935. [46] The Law for the Protection of German Blood and German Honour prohibited marriages and extramarital intercourse between Jews and Germans, and forbade the employment of German females under 45 in Jewish households.
The Reichstag only met 12 times between 1933 and 1939, and enacted only four laws — the "Law on the Reconstruction of the Reich" of 1934 (which turned Germany into a highly centralized state) and the three "Nuremberg Laws" of 1935. All passed unanimously. It would only meet eight more times after the start of the war.
In Nazi Germany, after the Nuremberg Laws were passed in 1935, sexual relations and marriages between Aryans and non-Aryans were prohibited. [note 1] Although the laws were primarily against Jews at first, they were later extended to the Romani, Blacks, and their offspring.
In 1935, the Nuremberg Laws made any sexual relations between Aryans and non-Aryans a criminal offence. [228] Aryans that were found guilty under the laws and charged with Rassenschande ("racial shame") faced incarceration in a concentration camp, while non-Aryans could face the death penalty.