German Laws Nazi Crimes

How the Nuremberg Laws (1935) facilitated

Nazi Genocide

Prof. Nathan StoltzfusFlorida State University

Rumors that Jewish–German intermarriages would be banned caused the Grodkas – like other Couples - to marry at once, rather than wait longer, as they had planned.

The wedding photograph of Wally and Gunter Grodka, June 6, 1935.

Rudi and Elsa Holzer in Rudi’s Austrian hometown in the early 1930s.

Wannsee ConferenceJanuary 20, 1242

ReinhardHeydrich

Part I

Main Objectives and Clauses of the Nuremberg Laws

Learning Objectives

• Identify Nazi objectives for the Nuremberg Laws• Describe the main clauses of these laws• Discuss how these laws identified German Jews

The Nuremberg Laws: Main Objectives and Clauses

1: To accelerate separation between Jews and other Germans

2: To distinguish German Jews from other Germans by defining who is Jewish

The Nuremberg Laws: Main Objectives and Clauses

3 To strip Jews of rights and mark them as second class citizens

4 To prohibit any further marriage and sexual relations between Jews and other Germans

How the Laws Defined Jews

• All Germans with three or more Jewish Grandparents

• All Germans with two Jewish grandparents who were also either married to Jews or members of the Jewish Community

The Nuremberg Laws became the basis for

identifying victims of the Nazi persecution and genocide of

the Jews