English Translation

103 citizenship, the Act on the Imperial Flag and the Law on the Protection of German Blood and Honor. (274) Only a national of German blood or species related blood could become a Reich citizen and for the protection of blood purity, inter alia, prohibited marriages between Jews and other nationals. The first implementing regulation for the Reich Citizenship Act of 14 November 1935 (275) then stipulated (§5 par.1) that the Jewish person was the one who came from at least three grandparents fully Jewish, who considered himself a Jewish (voljüdisch) if he belonged to Jewish religious society. He also considered himself a Jewish half-breed from two completely Jewish grandparents, who was a citizen (§5 paragraph2): (a) when declaring the law on Reich citizens was a member of or admitted to Jewish religious society after that date; (b) he was married to Jew or married after that day; (c) he came from a marriage with a Jew that was concluded after the Act on the Protection of German Blood and German Honor became effective; (d) he originated from non-marital relations with Jew and was born after 31 July 1936. (This date expressed the maximum period of ten months between the birth and birth of a child from the beginning of the Nuremberg Law on the Protection of German Blood and Honor, which it acquired in the main part of effectiveness 17. September 1935.) The Jewish half-breed was considered to be the one who came from one or two completely Jewish grandparents, unless he was considered a Jew within the meaning of Section 5 (2) of the Implementing Regulation. The Circuit of the Reich and the Prussian Ministry of the Interior of 26 November 1935 concerning the prohibition of mixed marriage (276) then further distinguished the half-marriage 2. The German Jews had German nationality but could not become Reich citizens and as members of the lower race were gradually excluded from virtually all spheres of political, but also from the country's social and economic life. Nationally socialist ideology began to apply after March 1939 also in the law applicable to the territory of the Protectorate, the sources of this legislation differed; Reichs for German nationals, protectorate for other residents of the protectorates.