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Stone 94

NUREMBERG LAWS

THESE LAWS OF DISENFRANCHISEMENT PASSED BY THE REICHSTAG
DURING THE ANNUAL NAZI PARTY RALL IN SEPTEMBER 1935 WERE
INTENDED TO LEGITIMIZE GROWING ANTISEMITIC SENTIMENT. 

THE REICH CITIZENSHIP LAW CLASSIFIED JEWS AS STATE SUBJECTS
THEREBY EXCLUDING THEM FROM SOME (THE RIGHT TO VOTE AND HOLD
PUBLIC OFFICE) BUT NOT ALL PROTECTIONS AND RIGHTS AS A RESULT
OF THE LAW AND ITS COROLLARIES. THE LAW FOR THE PROTECTION
OF GERMAN BLOOD AND HONOR OUTLAWED MARRIAGES AND EXTRA-
MARITAL RELATIONS BETWEEN NON-ARYAN JEWS AND GERMANS,
PROHIBITED JEWS FROM RAISING THE GERMAN FLAG AND FORBADE
THEM FROM EMPLOYING ARYAN FEMALES UNDER AGE 45 FOR WORK
IN THEIR HOUSEHOLDS. 

BELIEVING THAT THE NUREMBERG LAWS, HOWEVER UNFAIR, WERE IN
SOME WAY MEANT TO GUARANTEE THEIR SAFETY IN THE WAKE OF
RECENT ANTISEMITIC VIOLENCE, MANY JEWS ACCEPTED THEIR SECOND-
CLASS STATUS. THREE YEARS LATER KRISTALLNACHT SHATTERED SUCH
HOPES FOREVER.