Nuremberg Laws

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Anti Semitic (hatred) laws against Jews, originated by the Nazi Government in 1935

Purpose of Nuremberg Laws

based on the belief of scientific racism.
Separate Jews from Germans (Aryans)
Deprived Jews of German citizenship

After Nazi came to power during_____, attack on jews increased.

had three or four racially full Jewish grandparents
belonged to a Jewish religious community
anyone married to a Jew or the children of Jewish parents.

The reaction was tempered by the fact that Southern states maintained a segregation system which was ominously similar to the Nuremberg Race Laws.

Neo Nuremberg Law of 2012

Enemy Expatriation Act proposed by US Congress
To give the federal government the ability to revoke US citizenship from individuals for "engaging in or purposefully and materially supporting hostilities against the United States."

Officially Started in 1939
Nazi program to euthanize those not deemed worthy to live

TiergartenstraBe 4

Abbreviation for T4, the address of the headquarters for the Charitable Foundation for Curative and Institutional Care

parent of a child who was born blind, mentally challenged and without an arm and leg wrote to Hitler seeking permission to euthanize the child.

Hitler's physician

T4 supervised team

Karl Brandt, Bouhler, Linden and Brack

Dr. Albert Widmann

(chief chemist of Criminal Technical Institute): Advisor of euthanasia planner by October 1940

Made by Hitler on August 24 1941 After
1940 rumors began to spread and a public outcry ensued.

Nazi Medical Experiments

Sulfonamide
High Altitude
Incendiary Bomb

High Altitude Test

Exposed the subjects to high altitude conditions in low-pressure chamber, to determine maximum altitude from which crews of damaged aircraft could parachute to safety. The results were supposed to aid the German pilots who had to eject from the plane at high altitude.

Incendiary Bomb

Experiment was conducted from November 1943 to about January 1944 at the Buchenwald concentration camp. To test the effect of various pharmaceutical treatments on phosphorus burns

Circulation of blood was cut by tying off blood vessels at both ends of wound to create a condition similar to that of a battlefield wound. Infection was worsened by forcing wood shavings and ground glass into the wounds. Later infection was treated with

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