1935: Legalization of Nazi Racism

1935: Legalization of Nazi Racism. Holocaust Monument. , The Saar region, granted to France by the Versailles Treaty, was returned to Germany on January 13. German mandatory military service resumed on March 16, in breach of the Versailles Treaty. Jews were barred from the armed forces. , Virulent attacks in the press raised new concerns for Jews. Throughout Germany signs proclaimed "Jews not wanted here" or "bathing prohibited to dogs and Jews". Local officials, exceeding their authority, excluded German Jewish citizens from public facilities and even for a time, from public transportation. , Nazi Youth mobs rampaged on the Kurfurstendamm, Berlin's main commercial district, in mid-July destroying stores and assaulting those presumed to be Jewish. , On September 15, the Nuremberg Laws were enacted, providing the legal basis for Jewish disenfranchisement. Under Reich citizenship law, German Jews no longer had any political rights. Only "Aryan" Germans and those of "related blood" were accorded citizenship. , The law for the protection of German blood and honor prohibited marriages or sexual relations between Germans and Jews; the employment of German women under the age of 45 and the raising of the German flag by Jews. For the first time, Jews were persecuted because of their "race", not because of their religion.