Recepce norimberských zákonů v Říšské župě Sudety
Reception of the Nuremberg Laws in the Sudetenland County

Author(s): Ludomír Kocourek
Subject(s): Jewish studies, History of Law, Ethnohistory, Recent History (1900 till today), Interwar Period (1920 - 1939), History of Antisemitism
Published by: Židovské Muzeum v Praze
Keywords: Nuremberg Laws; antisemitism; Sudetenland; racial theories; Nazi policies; Jewish segregation;
Summary/Abstract: This study investigates the reception of the Nuremberg Laws in the Reichsgau Sudetenland, highlighting the ideological principles of racism, xenophobia, and antisemitism that were implemented following the occupation of Czechoslovakia in October 1938. It discusses the pseudoscientific racial theories used to justify the superiority of the German race and the subsequent anti-Jewish terror that became state policy after the Nazis came to power in 1933. The Nuremberg Laws, enacted in September 1935, aimed to eliminate Jews from public life by distinguishing between "Reich citizens" and "state subjects," with Jews being classified as the latter. The document details the various discriminatory measures, including the prohibition of marriages between Jews and non-Jews, the requirement for Jews to adopt additional names, and the restrictions on their employment and public activities. It also examines the administrative measures taken to identify and segregate Jews, the role of the press in promoting antisemitic propaganda, and the impact of these policies on the Jewish population in the Sudetenland.

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