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Posters
designed in the
light of Nazi
Aryan race pro-
paganda. The
people in these
posters, with
blond hair, long
skulls, narrow
noses and blue
eyes, are totally
compatible with
the Aryan ideal...

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The Sterilization Law was not sufficient for the Nazis to
achieve their real objective. In order to establish a "purified
Aryan race," the Nuremberg Laws were passed in 1935. Under
these laws—savagery and primitiveness legalized—, enshrined
the ideal of the so-called purification of the Aryan race.
Work on racial purification began with an enquiry into civil
servants' family trees. Those thought not to belong to the Aryan
race were forced into retirement. The Nuremberg Laws divided
the German people into half: those who were subjects of the
state and those who enjoyed full citizenship and political rights.
Jews, Gypsies and members of other races were merely subjects
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