Nuremberg gave its name to the 1935 laws that stripped Jews of civil rights.
The laws were announced in Nuremberg during the annual Nazi Party rally. Although they were passed by the Reichstag, the parliament met symbolically in the city while the rally was taking place. Their formal titles included the Reich Citizenship Law and the Law for the Protection of German Blood and German Honour.
Nuremberg later became associated with a different major Holocaust-era event: the Nuremberg trials, held after World War II to prosecute leading Nazi officials. The shared name can cause confusion, but the 1935 laws and the postwar trials were separate events. The city’s name therefore appears in both the history of Nazi persecution and the effort to establish legal accountability afterward.