Race laws adopted by the NSDAP in Nuremberg in 1935.
Two laws were formulated in Nuremberg. The first was the Law for the Protection of German Blood and German Honour, which prohibited Jews from marrying or engaging in sexual relationships with Germans. Marriages between Jews and Germans were annulled. The
second law was the Reich Citizenship Law, which deprived Jews of their civil rights, so that they could no longer invoke their right to protection under the constitution. In addition, Jews holding government positions were removed from office.
The Nuremberg laws were based on the Nazi ideology, which presumed the existence of different races. The races were believed to have characteristic physical, psychological, and social attributes. The Nazis believed that the Jewish race was inferior to the German - or Aryan - race. They determined whether a person was Jewish based on the number of Jewish grandparents a person had. (Also see under Jew).
Later the Nuremberg laws were also implemented in the occupied territories. In the Netherlands this was announced on 27 March 1942 in The Jewish Weekly Newspaper.