Nurnberg blood protection laws Instructional poster with chart explaining Nuremberg blood purity laws.

Identifier
irn2585
Language of Description
English
Alt. Identifiers
  • 1990.120.9
Dates
1 Jan 1938 - 31 Dec 1938
Level of Description
Item
Languages
  • German
Source
EHRI Partner

Extent and Medium

overall: Height: 11.500 inches (29.21 cm) | Width: 15.375 inches (39.053 cm)

Creator(s)

Archival History

The poster was acquired by the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum in 1990.

Acquisition

United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Collection

Scope and Content

Educational poster with a chart showing whom those with pure and un-pure blood could marry. It is from a portfolio of teaching panels designed by Alfred Vogel, a school headmaster and Nazi Party member, to instruct students on the superiority of the Aryan race, the virtue of racial purity, and the burden that Jews, as well as the handicapped, mentally ill, and unfit, place on society. For Hitler's government, the indoctrination of children through the required teaching of Nazi ideology was a powerful tool. The teaching of eugenics and racial biology began in primary school. Vogel's series provided illustrated aids on its key aspects, showing in simple pictures the urgency of the Jewish threat, the danger of racial miscegenation, or mixing of races, and how the pure breed will always be strongest, and mixed breeds must be eliminated.

Conditions Governing Access

No restrictions on access

Conditions Governing Reproduction

No restrictions on use

Physical Characteristics and Technical Requirements

Poster on cardstock with a title phrase in Fraktur font across the top. Outside the wall on the right are excerpts from the Nuremberg laws and on the left is a legend for the chart inside the wall which depicts how racial mixing between Arisch [Aryans] in blue and Judisch [Jewish] in red can be denied or subject to approval. A full Aryan cannot marry a full Jew, and a 75% Jew cannot marry a full Aryan or a person of 25% Aryan 75% Jewish mix. Marriage between a half Jew half Aryan and a full Jew or a person that is 25% Aryan, 75% Jewish needs official approval. There are 2 identical signs that read Halt Rassengesetze [stop race laws]. Below is another sign stating the prevention of non-German immigration. This poster is 9 of 9 in the collection.

Genre

This description is derived directly from structured data provided to EHRI by a partner institution. This collection holding institution considers this description as an accurate reflection of the archival holdings to which it refers at the moment of data transfer.