Nürnberger Gesetze

 

Nürnberger Gesetze

The Nuremberg Laws (Nürnberger Gesetze in German) were a series of racist and anti-Semitic laws in Nazi Germany unanimously adopted on September 15, 1935 during the seventh annual congress of the NSDAP (Reichsparteitag) held in the city of Nuremberg (Germany).The Nuremberg Laws were drafted by the jurist and politician Wilhelm Frick in his position as Reich Minister of the Interior (1933-1943), with the consent of Adolf Hitler and Julius Streicher as co-author. Frick was a recognized anti-Semite and wrote these laws that prevented the Jewish community from relating racially to the German people.                                                          These racial laws were the beginning of the discrimination and persecution of the Jewish community in Germany. Said laws were not aimed at discriminating against the Semitic ethnic group due to their religious beliefs as such (Judaism); rather, they were related to the same Jewish community and their central objective was to avoid Jewish racial mixtures with the German people. The person in charge of disseminating these laws was precisely Julius Streicher, a close collaborator of Hitler, and his newspaper Der Stürmer of which he owned. Thanks to this publication, Streicher helped convince the German masses that the Jew was a social scourge inserted into the German people and that it should be "excised like a cancerous tumor", as explained in Hitler's book, Mein Kampf.