How the Nazis defined race

Got sent this fascinating chart from the Third Reich that shows how specific German laws were over working out your blood ancestry. It wasn't about , but bloodline. If you had the right ancestors you had the privileges' of , and if you didn't you had less rights.

I am not considered Jewish as my mother wasn't Jewish. But according to the Nazis I would be classified as a Jew as I would have been a child of mixed ancestry of the 1st grade. I would have needed permission from the Nazis to marry a non-Jew.

It's a good reminder that rights of citizenship should not be dependent on your bloodline.

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