Thousands of people were convicted or simply disappeared into concentration camps for race defilement. The Nuremberg Laws reversed the process of emancipation , whereby Jews in Germany were included as full members of society and equal citizens of the country.
More significantly they laid the foundation for future anti-Semitic measures by legally distinguishing between German and Jew. For the first time in history, Jews faced persecution not for what they believed, but for who they — or their parents — were by birth. In Nazi Germany, no profession of belief and no act or statement could convert a Jew into a German.
Many Germans who had never practiced Judaism or who had not done so for years found themselves caught in the grip of Nazi terror. While the Nuremberg Laws specifically mentioned only Jews, the laws also applied to blacks and Roma Gypsies living in Germany. The definition of Jews, blacks, and Roma as racial aliens facilitated their persecution in Germany. In August , the Nazi regime tried to camouflage its violent racist policies while it hosted the Summer Olympics.
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The so-called Nuremberg Laws, signed by Hitler and several other Nazi officials, were the cornerstone of the legalized persecution of Jews in Germany.
They stripped German Jews of their German citizenship, barred marriage and "extramarital sexual intercourse" between Jews and other Germans, and barred Jews from flying the German flag, which would now be the swastika. He wrote:. Dodd followed up the next day with a dispatch to the secretary of state regarding the Nuremberg Party Congress: "Race propaganda and psychology ran through practically all the speeches like a scarlet thread, obviously in preparation for the laws that were to be adopted by the Reichstag.
He added: "The new laws against the Jews deceive very few people that the last word has been said on that question or that new discriminatory measures will not eventually follow within the limit of what is possible without bringing about too great a disturbance in business. On September 19, Dodd sent the secretary of state two copies of the Reichsgestzblatt [Reich Law Gazette] of September 16, which contained the Nuremberg Laws and also included translations of them.
In transmitting them, Dodd wrote: "The anti-Jewish legislation should be sufficiently severe to please Party extremists for some time.
They were not. More persecutions followed in the years before World War II began in The extermination of the Jews and others followed, not only in Germany, but through most of Europe. Seventh Army entered Nuremberg and after hard fighting effectively secured the town.
A week later, Hitler committed suicide in Berlin, and the week after that, the Germans surrendered. Meanwhile, in late April , M. Martin Dannenberg, leading the rd U. An informant led him and his team to a bank vault in the town of Eichstaett, about 45 miles due south of Nuremberg. There, a German financial official who had a key opened the vault, then handed over to the American soldiers some documents in a yellow envelope, sealed with red wax swastikas.
Dannenberg slit the top of the envelope and pulled the documents out. The first thing he saw was the signature "Adolf Hitler. Army in after fleeing his homeland in , was one of two men accompanying Dannenberg.
Translating the documents, Perls quickly realized they were the infamous Nuremberg Laws. Dannenberg turned them over to his commanding officer, who ordered Dannenberg and Perls to deliver them to the U. Third Army commander, Gen. On May 2, less than a week after the CIC special agents found the Nuremberg Laws and a few days before the war in Europe ended, Truman appointed Associate Justice Jackson as chief of counsel for the United States in its prosecution of the Allied case against the major Axis war criminals.
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