Video: '15th September 1935: Nazi Germany introduces the discriminatory 'Nuremberg Laws''

(Sunday, September 15, 1935) — Germany’s Reichstag, meeting in special session during the National Socialist Party’s “Day of Freedom,” today passed the so-called Nuremberg Laws, a sweeping set of racial decrees that stripped Jews of citizenship and outlawed marriages between Jews and so-called Aryans.

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The measures, presented by fascist dictator Adolf Hitler and adopted unanimously, placed Jews outside the nation’s legal and social order. At the same time, the Reichstag proclaimed the swastika banner the sole official flag of the German Reich.

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Foreign observers said the Nuremberg Laws marked a sharp escalation of Nazi racial policy and a direct challenge to Western liberal opinion.