Nuremberg Laws (1935) — Reich Citizenship + Blood Law
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This is the law that stripped an entire people of citizenship and made marrying them a crime, a chilling template of scapegoating written into statute.
Who they are
Two Nazi German laws passed by the Reichstag on September 15, 1935.
What they do
The Reich Citizenship Law demoted Jews to non-citizen 'subjects,' and the Blood Protection Law banned marriage and relations between Jews and other Germans.
How it works
A follow-up decree on November 14, 1935 spelled out exactly who counted as legally 'Jewish.' The documented fact is only this: the German state wrote the laws, and the Jewish population was the target. The engine treats it as the most extreme legal form of one group being singled out and punished for the whole society, describing structure and function only, not any group's collective guilt.
Why it matters
It stands as the starkest recorded example of a state turning a minority into an official scapegoat, and the engine keeps the deeper interpretations open rather than asserting them.
The engine's record — word for word
[in-scope 1200-2040; new instance] 15 Sep 1935, Reichstag; the Reich Citizenship Law reduced Jews to 'subjects' without citizenship, the Law for the Protection of German Blood barred marriage/relations with Jews; a 14 Nov 1935 supplementary decree defined who was legally 'Jewish'. Structural class: exemption-against (#100) in its most extreme statutory form / state-scale pharmakos. DOCUMENTED FACT: author-of-record = the German state; target = the Jewish population. Readings HELD, not asserted; record documents the instance only. Sibling: pale_of_settlement_1791, anti_cosmopolitan_purge_1948_53. Tier-1/2 (germanhistorydocs primary text; USHMM).
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