The Nuremberg Laws were promulgated on the initiative of Adolf Hitler on September 15, 1935, at the Congress of the National Socialist Party of Germany in Nuremberg. Under these laws, the Reich Citizenship Act and the Protection of German Blood and German Honor Act, Jews were deprived of German citizenship (but considered nationals) and the right to enter into marital (or extramarital) contact with Aryans. The laws were passed unanimously by a session of the Reichstag convened specifically in Nuremberg on the occasion of the party congress.
The Nuremberg Laws continued the policy of racial discrimination and xenophobia that had begun in 1933, as the "non-Aryans" had since been deprived of the right to practice law and civil service, to practice medicine; quotas were introduced for Jews in educational institutions, and "racially inferior" citizens were discharged from military service. They were forbidden to have their own businesses, and Jewish property was registered and confiscated.
According to the amendments to the Reich Citizen Act, the term "Jew" was legally defined as a person who had at least three Jewish ancestors in the third generation (among grandparents). For clarity, special racial tables were developed, which were widely circulated in textbooks, school diaries, notebooks. The exposition of the Museum "Jewish Memory and Holocaust in Ukraine" houses the "Student Calendar", donated by Savely Bass; on page 119, it published a table defining "Jewish blood," developed in accordance with the Nuremberg Laws.
Subsequently, the law of August 17, 1938 in the Third Reich introduced a special mark for Jews in passports - "J" (Jude). In addition, "Israel" was added to each man's name, and Jewish women were given the second name "Sarah" in their passports. The exposition of the Museum "Jewish Memory and Holocaust in Ukraine" shows the foreign passport of Theodor Israel Schlepenberg, issued in Landsberg on May 6, 1939.
People of mixed origin belonged to the category of so-called "Micheliners", ie people of German-Jewish origin. It is worth noting that the Nazi policy of "Michelin" was not consistent: against the background of general discrimination, exceptions were made for the most valuable personnel (good professionals, brave soldiers, people with good connections, etc.). However, in the case of the marriage of a "Michelin" to a Jew or his observance of Jewish traditions, he lost his special status and was equal to the Jews.
Thus, the Nuremberg Laws were fully in line with the concept of "racial hygiene", which defined the need to divide people according to artificially developed criteria. These laws became the basis for a policy of further discrimination against Jews and their annihilation at the stage of "the final solution of the Jewish question."