e Party program which defined Jews as members of a separate race, of a different blood, who can in no way belong to German society or be citizens of the German state and therefore demanded that Jews to be deprived of their rights as citizens. It also restricted the employment of Germans by Jews. (http://www.us-israel.org/jsource/Holocaust/nurlaws.html).
             The first of these laws, The Law for the Protection of German Blood and German Honor, prohibited marriages between Jews and Germans.
             In the spirit of this legislation, a Jew was defined as anyone who had three grandparents who were racially pure Jews. A Mischling is a member of mixed race, was defined as anybody who had either one or two Jewish grandparents. Apart from the Nazis' belief in pseudo-scientific racial doctrines and their insistence that Jews are to be defined racially rather than religiously, in practice they were forced to revert to an individual's belonging to the community when attempting to identify who is a Jew.
             The second, the Reich Citizenship Law, stripped
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