Hitler announced the Nuremberg Laws in 1935. These laws stripped Jews of their civil rights as German citizens and separated them from Germans legally, socially, and politically. Jews were also defined as a separate race under "The Law for the Protection of German Blood and Honor." Being Jewish was now determined by ancestry; thus the Germans used race, not religious beliefs or practices, to define the Jewish people. This law forbade marriages or sexual relations between Jews and Germans. Hitler warned darkly that if this law did not resolve the problem, he would turn to the Nazi Party for a final solution.
More than 120 laws, decrees, and ordinances were enacted after the Nuremburg Laws and before the outbreak of World War II, further eroding the rights of German Jews. Many thousands of Germans who had not previously considered themselves Jews found themselves defined as "non-Aryans."
On 2 August 1934, President Paul von Hindenburg died. No new President was appointed; instead the powers of the Chancellor and President were combined. This, and a tame government with no opposition parties, allowed Hitler totalitarian control of law making. The army also swore an oath of loyalty personally to the Führer, giving Hitler power over the army also. This allowed Hitler to easily create more pressure on the Jews than ever before.
However, in the years 1935-1936, persecution of the Jews increased apace. In May 1935, Jews were forbidden to join the Wehrmacht (Army), and in the summer of the same year, anti-Jewish propaganda appeared in Nazi-German shops and restaurants. The Nuremberg Racial Purity Laws were passed around the time of the great Nazi rallies at Nuremberg; On 15 September 1935 the "Law for the Protection of German Blood and Honour" was passed preventing marriage between any Jew and non-Jew. At the same time the "Reich Citizenship Law" was passed, and was reinforced in November by a decree, stating that all Jews, even quarter- and half-Jews, were no longer citizens (Reichsbürger) of their own country (their official title became "subject of the state" or Reichsangehöriger) . This meant that they had no basic citizens' rights, e.g., to vote. (But at this time the right to vote for the non-Jewish Germans only meant the obligation to vote for the Nazi party.) This removal of basic citizens' rights preceded harsher laws to be passed in the future against Jews. The drafting of the Nuremberg Laws is often attributed to Hans Globke.
In 1936, Jews were banned from all professional jobs, effectively preventing them from exerting any influence in education, politics, higher education and industry. Because of this, there was nothing to stop the anti-Jewish actions that spread across the Nazi-German economy.
The Nuremberg Laws
In 1935, the violence of the Nazi anti-Semitism was once again channeled into law. A series of laws were unanimously adopted at the annual Congress at Nuremberg. These laws, termed the "Nuremberg Laws," made anti-Semitism legal and enforced the disenfranchisement of non-Aryan German subjects. Göring emphasized that the Nazis would not allow interracial marriages in a campaign speech. The party encouraged pyre marriages and oaths of political loyalty, both of which were required by law after 1933. Euthanasia followed as a logical consequence to the Nazi goal of the purest people. In September, Frick oversaw the drafting of the Law for the Protection of German Blood and German Honor. It, and the later Reich Citizenship law, "protected" the true German population from the taint of non-Aryan races. Reich citizenship was bestowed on either those who were racially pure or politically subservient.
A Jew was anyone with at least three full Jewish grandparents. Also legally to be regarded as a Jew was someone who had two full Jewish grandparents and who belonged to the Jewish religious community when the law was promulgated September 15, 1935, or who joined later, or who was married to a Jew then or later, or (looking to the future) who was the offspring of a marriage contracted with a Jew after September 15, 1935, or who was born out of wedlock after July 31, 1936, the offspring of extramarital relations with a Jew. Anyone who was one-eighth or one-sixteenth Jewish-with one Jewish great-grandparent or great-great-grandparent-would be considered as of German blood.(58).
Unfortunately, what rights the people enjoyed were false. "There were no political parties, no elections, no freedoms, no protections...unless the Reich citizen [supported the party absolutely], he would more likely be cadaver than citizen." (68).
The laws enacted between 1933 and 1935 set the Jews (and other non-Aryans and non-Germans) apart from the Germans legally, politically, socially, and economically. They would lose all access to the law and become playthings for the secret police.
The Nazi party followed a program introduced as early as 1847 and outlined in Hitler's Mein Kampf. By 1935, the Jews and non-Germans had been totally disenfranchised. The Nuremberg laws foreshadowed the dark path towards which Hitler was leading Germany. The Law for the Protection of German Blood and German Honor, he said, was "an attempt to regulate by law a problem that, in the event of repeated failure, would have to be transferred by law to the National Socialist Party for the Final Solution" (69). As the Nuremberg laws went into effect, the Jews found themselves increasingly under the jurisdiction of the state as well as of the SS.
2006-10-03 06:53:31
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answered by johnslat 7
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Perhaps if you do your own research and homework, there will be at least one less ignorant person in the world, and that will be you. Then maybe someday, there will be no reason to ask these questions at all. There has been violence against MANY people, not just Jews.
My goodness, why can't you just type in "Nuremberberg Laws" into Google, and find out yourself, instead of asking here?
I not do your work for you; nobody can. If you think they can, you will not get far in life. You will find that out when you get older. Time to grow up and show some responsibility and intiative.
2006-10-03 07:01:45
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answered by MrZ 6
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You need to do a little homework. Look in an encyclopedia and research this. Your question indicates that you have not even done the most basic background research.
FYI, there has been violence against jews since the earliest recorded history, and it continues today with the most racist group ever: Islamic Extremists.
2006-10-03 06:51:09
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answered by t_o_w_e_r_i_n_g 3
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