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Nuremberg Law
Essential Question: Describe the Nuremberg Laws and explain how they were an example of Social Darwinism. (MC)
Using the PowerPoint/handout, answer the below questions:
1) What is anti-Semitism? Provide some examples that predate Hitler.
2) What were the Nuremberg laws of 1935? Provide several examples.
3) What was Kristallnacht?
4) What is Social Darwinism?
5) How were the Nuremberg Laws an example of Social Darwinism?
6) When did moving the Jews to the concentration camps begin?
Primary Source – Using the text from the Law passed on September 15, 1935 (on reverse)
1. Summarize the intent of each Nuremberg Law:
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IV.
Describe the punishments for breaking the law:
V.
2. What do you find most disturbing about the Nuremberg Law?
3. How would your life and the lives of your friends, family, and neighbors be different if suddenly a
law such as the Nuremberg Law were imposed on your culture?
4. Why do you think the Germans wrote such a law?