The Nazi-dominated German parliament enacted the Nuremberg Laws on September 15, 1935, in the German city of Nuremberg. These two racial laws became the basis for all later Nazi legislation against the Jews in Germany and German-occupied Europe. The first Nuremberg Law, known as the “State Citizenship Law,” stripped German Jews of their citizenship and turned them into alien residents in their own country, and set down strict guidelines for determining who was a Jew, who was an Aryan, and who was a Mischling. The second law, the “Law for the Protection of German Blood and German Honor,” forbade marriage between Jewish and non-Jewish Germans, prohibited Jews from employing German women under the age of 45, and restricted Jews from flying the national flag.
