Research Paper On Nuremberg Laws
The Nuremberg Laws
What would you do if your cultural background or religion was being treated as an inferior race? The Nuremberg Laws were anti-semitic race laws set by the Nazi Party, that also opened the doors for more anti-semitic acts.
Nazis came to power in the year of 1933 with a set in stone cruel and unreasonable race ideology. One of those ideologies were Social Darwinism which is the idea that the Aryan race was superior and Jews were ‘subhuman’. With Social Darwinism being the major ideology the Nazis put this into practice. With the support of German scientist who also believed the human race could be improved by limiting the reproduction of people considered ‘inferior’, they were able to perform surgeries that made it impossible for African-German,Gypsies, or Jews to have children. These surgeries caused about 30,500 people to be handicapped or go blind. It may not seem like a lot but when you triple it to the amount of people in the U.S. that is almost the …show more content…
At an annual party taken place in Nuremberg in the year of 1935, the Nazis institutionalized the Nuremberg Laws. The two laws both signed by Hitler personally defined Reich Citizenship as protection of german blood. The first law stated that citizenship could only belong to german or kindred blood. Under the second law all Jews were defined as not being of ‘german blood’. The Nuremberg laws stated clearly that Jews were no longer apart of German life as in having no rights and equality. Hitler made his attack on the Jews for the opening of the 1936 olympic games in Berlin. They wanted to prove the superior strength of the Aryan race and expected their olympians to dominate competitors. Jesse Owens an African American sprinter was a member of nazi defined as a racially inferior group, dominated the track and field competition. Germany went on to win more medals than any other
What would you do if your cultural background or religion was being treated as an inferior race? The Nuremberg Laws were anti-semitic race laws set by the Nazi Party, that also opened the doors for more anti-semitic acts.
Nazis came to power in the year of 1933 with a set in stone cruel and unreasonable race ideology. One of those ideologies were Social Darwinism which is the idea that the Aryan race was superior and Jews were ‘subhuman’. With Social Darwinism being the major ideology the Nazis put this into practice. With the support of German scientist who also believed the human race could be improved by limiting the reproduction of people considered ‘inferior’, they were able to perform surgeries that made it impossible for African-German,Gypsies, or Jews to have children. These surgeries caused about 30,500 people to be handicapped or go blind. It may not seem like a lot but when you triple it to the amount of people in the U.S. that is almost the …show more content…
At an annual party taken place in Nuremberg in the year of 1935, the Nazis institutionalized the Nuremberg Laws. The two laws both signed by Hitler personally defined Reich Citizenship as protection of german blood. The first law stated that citizenship could only belong to german or kindred blood. Under the second law all Jews were defined as not being of ‘german blood’. The Nuremberg laws stated clearly that Jews were no longer apart of German life as in having no rights and equality. Hitler made his attack on the Jews for the opening of the 1936 olympic games in Berlin. They wanted to prove the superior strength of the Aryan race and expected their olympians to dominate competitors. Jesse Owens an African American sprinter was a member of nazi defined as a racially inferior group, dominated the track and field competition. Germany went on to win more medals than any other