What types of laws were made against the jews in WW2?
When Hitler and the Nazis came to power in 1933, no programme for genocide had been delivered; this system was to arrive with the increased technology facilitated by warfare. But anti-semitism – and the concept of racial purity – was a significant aspect of the Nazi promise of recovery made to a nation ravaged by World War One. The Jews were the primary target in Nazi ideology; they were believed to stand directly in the path of Germany’s progress, and they were the main subject of Nazi conspiracy theories. Beginning with small-scale persecution, the Nazis followed with legal measures to exclude Jews from German society. The Nuremberg Laws of 1935 denied German citizenship to anyone Jewish. With anti-semitism came the need to classify race; German schoolchildren were instructed on how to identify a Jew by shape of nose, mouth and cranium. They were given picture books to read, warning them against the so-called dangers of association with Jewish children. Anyone with ‘one-eighth Jewish
