JWST 240 Chapter Notes - Chapter reading: Nuremberg Laws
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The nazis had long promised to exclude jews from. Economic boycott, exclusion of jews from civil. Service and of the professions and the arts were directed towards this goal. The vagueness of non-aryans included a great number of people who had no connection with the. Jewish community, elicited pressure from within the party to provide more specific and precise legislation on the role of jews in germany. The nuremberg laws were the official nazi response. A law making the nazi swastika the official national flag. A law defining german citizenship in a way that excluded jews. A law banning marriage and sexual intercourse between germans and jews. The nuremberg laws achieved the reversal of jewish emancipation. Jews in germany became aliens in their own country. A jew cannot be a citizen of the reich. He has no right to vote in political affairs; he cannot occupy public office.
