Anti-Jewish legislation promulgated on September 15, 1935 at a Reichstag session during the Nazi Party conference in Nuremberg. The legislation included two laws: the Reich Citizenship Law nullified the Jews' German citizenship. From this point on, Jews were to be subjects of the state. The second law, the Law for the Protection of German Blood and Honour banned marriage and sexual relations between Jews and non-Jews and prohibited employment in Jewish homes of German women under forty-five years of age. The immediate result of the legislation was that all Jews remaining in the civil service were dismissed. The Nuremberg laws created a legal and bureaucratic framework, built on racial criteria. They served as the foundation for most of the anti-Jewish legislation that was adopted in subsequent years. Most of the later statutes and regulations were addenda to the Citizenship Law. The first regulation based on the Nuremberg Laws defined Jews a full-Jew as any person with three or more Jewish grandparents. Among those with one or two Jewish grandparents - persons of mixed race - ( Mischlinge ) - some were considered Jewish and others not. Although the legislation was based on racial doctrine, the legislators were compelled to adopt a definition that took into account affiliation and identification with the Jewish community. Thus, they ruled that Mischlinge would be considered Jews if they belonged to a Jewish community, were married to Jews, or were born to a Jewish parent.
