Nuremberg Laws
In Nuremberg in 1935, the Nazis announced new laws that excluded German Jews from Reich citizenship and prohibited them from marrying or having sexual relations with people that were German. The Nuremberg Laws also stated that a "Jew" was no longer associated as someone with particular beliefs. Someone who had three or four Jewish grandparents were defined as a Jew, even if the individual didn't identify themselves as being a Jew or belonging to the Jewish religious community. Even people with Jewish grandparents that converted to Christianity were defined as Jews. In 1937 and 1938, the government set out another law to impoverish Jews by making them register their property and then by "Aryanizing" Jewish businesses. This meant that Jewish businesses were taken over by non-Jewish Germans who bought them at bargain prices fixed from Nazis. Also, most Jews had to carry around them an identity card, but the government added identifying marks to theirs: a red "J" stamped on them and new middle names for Jews who didn't have recognizable "Jewish" first names- "Isreal" for boys and "Sara" for girls.