JWST 240 Chapter Notes - Chapter reading: Racial Antisemitism, Nuremberg Laws
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Reading: law for the protection of german blood and. Two distinct laws were passed in september 1935 and were known as the nuremberg laws: The law for the protection of german blood and. The nazis had long sought a legal definition that identified. Jews not by religious affiliation but according to racial antisemitism. Jews in germany were not easy to identify by sight, many had given up traditional practices and appearances and integrated into mainstream society. According to the citizenship law, only people of german or kindred blood could be citizens of germany. The nazis claimed that jews were a race defined by blood and birth. There was no scientifically valid basis to define jews as a race. Grandparents born into a jewish religious community were considered racially jewish. Their racial status was passed to their children and grandchildren. Under the law, jews were not citizens, but subjects of the state.
