On this day, September 15, 1935, Nazi Germany enacted the Nuremberg Laws, transforming antisemitic ideology into state policy. The laws stripped German Jews of citizenship, prohibited marriage and sexual relations between Jews and people classified as “German or related blood,” and established racial definitions used to determine who the Nazi regime considered Jewish.
The accompanying photograph, on display at the Center for Studies of the Holocaust and Religious Minorities in Oslo, Norway, documents this history and serves as a reminder that the Holocaust did not begin with mass murder. It was preceded by years of laws, propaganda, and systematic efforts to isolate Jews from society and deprive them of their rights.
The Simon Wiesenthal Center preserves and teaches this history so future generations understand why antisemitism and discrimination must be confronted before it escalates.
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