- Nazi Anti-Jewish Laws
Shortly after Hitler's appointment as Reich Chancellor on January 30, 1933, the Reichstag (German parliament) began to institute a series of anti-Jewish decrees. Sections of these laws are quoted below:
- April 7, 1933
- Laws for the Restoration of the Professional Civil Service
"Civil servants who are not of Aryan (non-Jewish) descent are to be retired."
- April 7, 1933
- Law Regarding Admission to the Bar
"Persons who, according to the Law for the Restoration of the Professional Civil Service of April 7, 1933, are
of non-Aryan descent may be denied admission to the bar."
- April 25, 1933
- Law Against the Crowding of German Schools
and Institutions of Higher Learning
"In new admissions, care is to be taken that the number of Reich
Germans who, according to the Law for the Restoration of the Professional Civil Service of
April 7, 1933, are of non-Aryan descent, out of the total attending each school and each
faculty, does not exceed the proportion of non-Aryans within the Reich German
population."
Nuremberg Laws - With the passage of the Nuremberg Laws by the Reichstag on September 15, 1935, the first
direct attack on individual Jews was launched. These laws mark a sharp progression toward
an irreversible anti-Semitic policy. In the future, no Jew would be able to escape
intensified persecution.
- September 15, 1935
- Law for the Protection of German Blood and German Honor
"Marriages between Jews and subjects of
German or kindred blood are forbidden...Extramarital intercourse forbidden between Jews
and subjects of German or kindred blood...Jews are forbidden to fly the Reich and
national flag and to display Reich colors...They are, on the other hand, allowed to
display the Jewish colors...Whoever violates the prohibition...will be punished by
penal servitude."
- September 15, 1935
- Reich Citizenship Law
"A Reich citizen is only that subject of
German or kindred blood who proves by his conduct that he is willing and suited loyally to
serve the German people and the Reich."
- November 14, 1935
- First Decree to the Reich Citizenship Law
"A Jew cannot be a Reich citizen. He is not
entitled to the right to vote on political matters; he cannot hold public office...A
Jew is anyone descended from at least three grandparents who are fully Jewish as regards
race...Also deemed a Jew is a Jewish Mischlung subject who is descended from two fully
Jewish grandparents and...who belonged to the Jewish religious community...who was
married to a Jew...who is the offspring of a marriage concluded by a Jew...who is an
offspring of extramarital intercourse with a Jew..."
- August 17, 1938
- Second Decree for the Implementation of the
Law Regarding Changes of Family Names
"Jews may be given only such given names as are listed in the
Guidelines on the Use of Given Names issued by the Reich Minister of the Interior...
Insofar as Jews have other given names than those which may be given to Jews...they are
obligated, beginning January 1, 1939, to assume an additional given name, namely the given
name Israel in the case of males and the given name Sarah in the case of females."
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