Nuremberg Laws

The Nuremberg Laws refer to a series of racist laws passed in Nazi Germany at the Nazi Party Congress in Nuremberg in 1935. The most famous of these laws are the Law for the Protection of German Blood and Honour and the Reich Citizenship Law.

These laws defined who was considered a "Jew" and severely restricted the rights of Jews. They prohibited marriage and sexual relations between "Aryans" and Jews and deprived Jewish citizens of their German citizenship. The Nuremberg Laws were a central step in the exclusion and persecution of the Jewish population and formed the legal basis for the later implementation of the Shoah.