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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.
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 1935 Nuremberg Laws banned marriage between Jews and those of "German blood". Existing marriages were not dissolved. [ 1 ] In the Protectorate of Bohemia and Moravia , marriages between Jews and Germans were banned upon the German invasion in March 1939, but it was possible for Jews and ethnic Czechs to marry until March 1942.
In September 1935, the Nuremberg Laws were enacted. These laws initially prohibited sexual relations and marriages between Aryans and Jews and were later extended to include "Gypsies, Negroes or their bastard offspring". [207] The law also forbade the employment of German women under the age of 45 as domestic servants in Jewish households. [208]
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.
The Nuremberg Laws, also known as the Anti-Jewish laws, were statutes created in Germany for the stated purpose of maintaining blood purity of the Aryan race. [3] The laws indicating the necessity of obtaining a German Blood Certificate were implemented at the time relationships between Aryan and Jews were outlawed. [3]