Racial Laws of 1938

The Racial Laws of 1938 were a set of legislation enacted by Nazi Germany to enforce racial discrimination, primarily targeting Jewish people. These laws stripped Jews of their citizenship, rights, and economic status, and separated them from the rest of society. They aimed to marginalize Jews legally and socially, preparing the groundwork for more extreme persecutions. Essentially, these laws formalized racial prejudice into state policy, institutionalizing discrimination and persecution based on ethnicity, which contributed to the broader context of the Holocaust.