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Events leading up to World War II

  • Nuremberg Laws

    Nuremberg Laws
    On september 15, 1935, the Nazi Party passed two new racial laws at the annual party rally in Nuremmberg. These laws were based on Nazi racial ideology that sought to eliminate groups considered inferior from the German population. The Nuremberg laws had two parts. First was the Law for Protection of German Blood and Honor, which forbade marriage and sexual relations between Jews and "Aryan" Germans. Jews could not fly the German flag or employ German women under the ae of 45 in their houehold