The Nuremberg Laws were a set of antisemitic and racist laws enacted by Nazi Germany in 1935. They defined who was considered a Jew based on ancestry rather than religious beliefs, and prohibited marriage or sexual relations between Jews and non-Jews. The laws also stripped Jews of their German citizenship and many civil rights, leading to widespread discrimination and persecution of Jewish people in Nazi Germany. The Nuremberg Laws laid the foundation for the Holocaust, in which six million Jews were systematically exterminated.
