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Article Law and Justice in the Third Reich. Glossary Terms. Critical Thinking Questions Since the Nazis could never prove a biological, or racial, basis for Judaism, how did they define Jews in these laws?
What questions does this raise? What privileges and protections of German citizenship were now lost to those who were defined as Jewish? How can knowledge of the Nuremberg Laws help citizens today respond to threats of genocide and mass atrocity in the world?
To further complicate the definitions, there were also people living in Germany who were defined under the Nuremberg Laws as neither German nor Jew, that is, people having only one or two grandparents born into the Jewish religious community. Nazis affix a sign to Jewish store urging shoppers not to patronize it, It also criminalized sexual relations between them.
The law also forbade Jews to employ female German maids under the age of 45, assuming that Jewish men would force such maids into committing race defilement. Thousands of people were convicted or simply disappeared into concentration camps for race defilement. The Nuremberg Laws reversed the process of emancipation , whereby Jews in Germany were included as full members of society and equal citizens of the country. More significantly they laid the foundation for future anti-Semitic measures by legally distinguishing between German and Jew.
For the first time in history, Jews faced persecution not for what they believed, but for who they — or their parents — were by birth. In Nazi Germany, no profession of belief and no act or statement could convert a Jew into a German.
Many Germans who had never practiced Judaism or who had not done so for years found themselves caught in the grip of Nazi terror. While the Nuremberg Laws specifically mentioned only Jews, the laws also applied to blacks and Roma Gypsies living in Germany.
The definition of Jews, blacks, and Roma as racial aliens facilitated their persecution in Germany. In August , the Nazi regime tried to camouflage its violent racist policies while it hosted the Summer Olympics.
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