A Hebrew translation of the Nuremberg Laws; Wikimedia Commons
Nazi Germany enacted >2,000 anti-Jewish measures
1933
The Law for the Restoration of the Professional Civil Service legalized firing “non-Aryan” government employees
Most “non-Aryan” students were barred from attending German schools and forbidden to take final state exams for many occupations
1935
The Nuremberg Race Laws stripped Jews of their citizenship and denied the right to vote
The Law for the Protection of German Blood and German Honor prohibited marriage and sexual contact between Germans and Jews
1936-1938
A series of anti-Jewish laws, culminating in the November 1938 pogrom known as Kristalnacht, restricted Jews from the German economy and legalized the confiscation of Jewish property
The Central Office for Jewish Emigration, under the direction of Otto Adolf Eichmann, empowered the SS (Schutzstaffel) to make all decisions regarding the fate of Jews
1939
With outbreak of WWII, anti-Jewish laws of variable intensity were enacted in occupied territories