File:800px-Nuremberg laws.jpg

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Description Deutsch: Die Nürnberger Gesetze, 1935: Deutschblütiger, Mischling 2. Grades, Mischling 1. Grades, Jude English: Chart to describe Nuremberg Laws, 1935. The "Nuremberg Laws" established a pseudo-scientific basis for racial identification. Only people with four German grandparents (four white circles in top row left) were of "German blood". A Jew is someone who descends from three or four Jewish grandparents (black circles in top row right). In the middle stood people of "mixed blood" of the "first or second degree." A Jewish grandparent was defined as a person who is or was a member of a Jewish religious community. Also includes a list of allowed marriages ("Ehe gestattet") and forbidden marriages ("Ehe verboten"). Date 15 September 1935 Source United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Collection Author German Government ("Entwurf Willi Hackenberger", "Copyright by Reichsauschuss für Volksgesundheitsdienst", government agency apparently part of the Reichs- und Preußisches Ministerium des Innern)

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