Nurnberg blood protection laws Instructional poster with chart explaining Nuremberg blood purity laws.
Extent and Medium
overall: Height: 11.500 inches (29.21 cm) | Width: 15.375 inches (39.053 cm)
Creator(s)
- Verlag fur nationale Literatur Gebr. Rath (Publisher)
- Alfred Vogel (Author)
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
- Object
- Posters