Nuremberg Laws announced

© Deutsches Historisches Museum, Berlin Racist mania of national socialism: pictures of German races 1 - nordic race, phalic race, western race

On 15 September 1935 at the Reich Party Convention in Nuremberg – the „Reich Party Convention of Freedom“ – Adolf Hitler announces the „Law for the Protection of German Blood and German Honour“ as well as the „Reich Citizenship Law“. The „Nuremberg Laws“ are used to deprive the Jewish population in Germany of its civil rights and to open all avenues to their further persecution. From now on even marriages between Jewish and non-Jewish German citizens will be subject to severe punishment. Other countries are outraged by the National Socialists’ „racial policies“. A few days later 51 prominent German emigrants, among them Heinrich Mann and Lion Feuchtwanger, assemble in Paris to confer on a common course of action against Hitler’s regime.