![]() ![]() Prior to the Nazi ascension to power in 1933, Adolf Hitler often blamed moral degradation on Rassenschande, or on "bastardization"-a way to assure his followers of his continuing antisemitism, which had been toned down for popular consumption. From left to right: Roland Freisler, Franz Schlegelberger, Otto Georg Thierack, and Curt Rothenberger. Implementation A meeting of the four Nazis who imposed Nazi ideology on the legal system of Germany. ![]() In addition, there was a practical reason behind the laws: prior to their enactment, Polish and Soviet women and girls working on German farms began having so many unwanted births that hundreds of special homes known as Ausländerkinder-Pflegestätte ("foster homes for foreign children") had to be created, in order to abort or kill the infants away from public view. These laws were justified by Nazi racial ideology, which depicted Slavic people as Untermenschen. Concerted efforts were made to foment popular distaste for it. In the course of the ensuing war years, sexual relations between Reichsdeutschen (ethnic Germans, regardless of place of birth) and millions of foreign Ostarbeitern ("workers from the East") forcibly brought to Germany were also legally forbidden. In the early stages the culprits were targeted informally later, they were punished systematically and legally. Initially, these laws referred predominantly to relations between ethnic Germans (classified, together with most other western Europeans, as "Aryans") and non-Aryans, regardless of citizenship. It was put into practice by policies like the Aryan certificate requirement, and later by anti-miscegenation laws such as the Nuremberg Laws, adopted unanimously by the Reichstag on 15 September 1935. "racial shame") or Blutschande ( German: ( listen) "blood disgrace") was an anti- miscegenation concept in Nazi German racial policy, pertaining to sexual relations between Aryans and non-Aryans. Reich Citizenship Law ( Reichsbürgergesetz) for the Protection of German Blood and German Honor, adopted unanimously by the Reichstag on 15 September 1935 ![]()
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