WW II

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1. Nuremberg Laws
The Nuremberg Laws were passed on September 9, 1915. They were 3 laws. The first law was the law of the Reich citizen, the second was the law for the protection of German blood and German honor, and the third was the Reich Flag Act. The law of the Reich citizen stated that only individuals of “German blood” could be citizens of the German Reich (state), therefore depriving German Jews of their citizenship. The law for the protection of German blood and German honor formalized barriers between Jews and Germans, forbidding marriage and sexual relations between Jews and “Aryans.” The Reich Flag Act deprived Jews from being able to raise the German flag or wear German colors.

2. Warsaw Ghetto
In late 1940 the Germans established a walled Jewish ghetto in Warsaw and herded Jews from the city and the surrounding region into it. Over the next two and a half years hundreds of thousands of Jews were forced into the ghetto and then sent to concentration camps. Atrocious living conditions, including overcrowding, lack of proper health services, and meager food rations, resulted in a high death rate among the inhabitants of the ghetto. In 1941 more than 20 percent of the population of the Warsaw ghetto died of starvation or disease. In April 1943 the Jews of the ghetto staged a heroic month-long struggle. In all, about 500,000 Warsaw-area Jews died.

3. Nuremberg Trials
The Nuremberg Trials were on October 18, 1945. It was when the chief prosecutors lodged an indictment with the court charging 24 individuals with a variety of crimes and murders, including the planned instigation of aggressive wars, extermination of racial and religious groups, murder and mistreatment of prisoners of war, and the murder, mistreatment, and deportation to slave labor of hundreds of thousands of residents of countries taken by Germany during the war. Twelve defendants were sentenced to death by hanging, seven received prison t...