The Nuremberg Laws were a set of discriminatory laws enacted in 1935 in Nazi Germany. These laws aimed to define who was considered a Jew and stripped Jews of their citizenship rights. They prohibited marriages and sexual relations between Jews and non-Jewish Germans, promoting racial purity according to the Nazi ideology. These laws were part of a broader campaign of anti-Semitism that escalated during the Holocaust. The Nuremberg Laws laid the groundwork for further persecution, leading to the segregation, deportation, and eventual extermination of millions of Jews and other targeted groups during World War II.