“We had to leave” / The Nazi Racial State dossier

The Nuremberg Race Laws, implemented in 1935, outlined the Nazis’ racial ideologies integral to the government’s systematic persecution of Jews within Germany. The laws revoked Jews’ citizenship and prohibited them from certain employment and marriage with the rest of the German population. This chart demonstrates the Nazi views that defined Jews as a race and bloodline, rather than a person with religious beliefs. A person with three or four Jewish grandparents was categorized by the Nazis as Jewish, regardless of their religious practices.

– Courtesy United States Holocaust Memorial Museum