7.6 Nuremberg Laws & Trials (Summer 2022)

In 1935, the Nazi Party created the Nuremberg Race Laws. These discriminatory laws prevented freedom and equality for German of Jewish descent in many ways. Choose ALL of the TRUE (correct) statements:

• German Jews were prohibited from citizenship (lost German citizenship OR couldn't gain it)

• It was illegal for German Jews to marry a person of "German" blood (Jews couldn't marry non-Jews)

• German Jews were given equal rights (had same rights as other Germans)

• German Jews were not allowed most political rights

According to the Nuremberg Race Laws, a "German Jew" is described as:

• a person who has converted to Judaism

• a person who has identified as belonging to the Jewish community

• a person who actively practices Judaism

• a person who has Jewish grandparents

TRUE or FALSE: a person who may have had Jewish grandparents but had converted to Christianity was defined as _____________.

• Jewish

• Christian

• German

• Nazi

According to the resource provided: Were Jewish people the only group of people that were discriminated against by the Nuremberg Race Laws? Choose the BEST answer!

• NO. Asians were also prevented from marrying Germans.

• NO. Roma and blacks were also prevented from marrying Germans.

• Yes. Nazi Party only hated Jewish people.

• NO. This resource states that French people were also discriminated against.

The Nuremberg Race Laws also discriminated against people of Jewish descent by:

*Choose ALL correct answers!

• Requiring Jewish people to register their property (had to officially tell government what they owned)

• Jewish businesses were taken over by non-Jewish Germans

• Jewish lawyers were prevented from doing their jobs (practicing law)

• Jewish teachers were burned at the stake

True or False: An effect of the Nuremberg Race Laws is that Jewish businesses were sold to non-Jewish Germans for large profits.

• True

• False

The Nuremberg Race Laws had many negative consequences for Jewish Germans. What were they required to do/have/wear so that police could easily identify them as Jewish?

The major cause(s) of the Nuremberg Race Laws is/are:

*Choose ALL that apply (choose ALL causes)

• Hitler was racist and the leader of the Nazi Party in Germany

• The Nazi Party was a totalitarian regime

• Jewish Germans were the military leaders of WWI which was the reason they lost WWI

• Non-Jewish doctors and lawyers were jealous of Jewish doctors and lawyers

Which of the following are major causes of the Nuremberg Trials?

*Choose ALL correct answers!

• Nuremberg Race Laws

• Racism and Totalitarianism

• Holocaust

• Atomic Bomb

• Jewish people were accused of killing their Nazi neighbors

According to the resource: Why wasn't Hitler part of the Nuremberg Trials?

• He escaped in a submarine to S. America

• He had committed suicide

• He was killed by a group of Jewish lawyers and doctors

• He was killed by the atomic bomb