History glossary
Nuremberg Laws
the 1935 Nazi racial laws that stripped Jews of citizenship and outlawed marriages and relationships with non-Jews.
- Category
- Racial law
- Region
- Germany
- Date range
- 1935
What it means
The Nuremberg Laws were announced in September 1935. They stripped Jews of German citizenship, defined Jewish identity by ancestry, and outlawed marriages and sexual relationships between Jews and non-Jews. They gave Nazi antisemitism a formal legal structure.
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