Nuremberg Laws

The Nuremberg Laws, enacted in 1935 by Nazi Germany, were discriminatory statutes targeting Jews. They stripped Jews of German citizenship, defined who was considered Jewish based on ancestry, and prohibited marriage and sexual relations between Jews and non-Jewish Germans. These laws institutionalized racial discrimination, segregating Jews from the broader society, and laid the legal groundwork for further anti-Semitic policies and ultimately the Holocaust. The laws reflect the Nazi regime’s ideology of racial purity and its systematic persecution of Jewish people.