ABSTRACT

The second law outlawed marriage and sexual relations between Jews and those of ‘German or related blood’. An implementing decree of 14 November 1935 defined more precisely the terms ‘Jew’, ‘Aryan’ and ‘Mischling’ (one of mixed parentage). Christians whose parents or grandparents were Jewish could now be considered as full Jews for all purposes. The Nuremberg Laws effectively institutionalized Nazi racism and served as the basis for many further anti-Jewish regulations and pronouncements.