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of the state who did not enjoy citizenship rights. The second of the

Nuremberg Laws, "For the Protection of German Blood and
German Honor," (known as the Blood Protection Law for short)
sought to guarantee the nation's so-called racial purity.
Under this new law, marriage between German citizens and
German subjects became a crime. It also constituted a precedent
for future practices implemented to isolate "undesirable individu-
als."

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The first step in the eugenics program was to classify the fea-
tures possessed by the race the Nazis regarded as superior. The
characteristics of the so-called master race were enumerated as fol-
lows:
Blond, tall, long-skulled, with narrow faces, pronounced chins, nar-
row noses with a high bridge, soft hair, widely spaced pale-coloured
eyes, pinky-white skin colour. 124
These and similar criteria, manifestly the product of a dis-
eased mentality, are both a violation of science and also morally
unacceptable. As already emphasized, there are no logical or
moral grounds for discriminating against people on the grounds
of the color of their skin, eyes or hair.
Despite these irrational criteria, it wasn't that easy for the
Nazis to distinguish the races from one another. To that end, they
carried out various measurements, using exceedingly primitive
methods, to measure people's skulls, and implemented a number
of intelligence tests with no scientific validity. Women who met
their necessary racial requirements were placed in special houses
and kept pregnant by Nazi officers for as long as this primitive
state of affairs continued. Children of unknown fathers were
brought into the world in these immoral "human stud farms."
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