Nuremberg Laws
The first law to limit Jewish rights was the Law for the Restoration of the Professional Civil Service of 1933, which Jewish and "politically unreliable" civil servants and employees were fired.
In 1935, two laws were announced at the annual Nazi Party in Nuremberg, known as the Nuremberg Laws.
- The Law for the Protection of German Blood and German Honor - prohibited marriages between Jews and Germans, and the employment of German females under forty-five in Jewish homes
- The Reich Citizenship Law - stripped Jews of their German citizenship
A Jew, according to the Nuremberg Laws, was not someone with particular religious beliefs, or someone who identified themselves as Jewish, but someone who had three or four Jewish grandparents. People who didn't even consider themselves Jewish were subject to this.
In 1937 and 1938, the government continued by requiring them to register their property. Then, now that the government knew what people owned, it "Aryanized" Jewish businesses. Jewish workers and managers were fired, and ownership of most Jewish-owned businesses were taken over by Germans who bought them at bargain prices. Jewish doctors were forbidden to treat non-Jews, and Jewish lawyers could not practice law.
All Jews had a red J stamped on them, and for all Jews who did not possess "Jewish" first names, new middle names were given. Israel for men and Sara for women. This allowed the police to identify them.