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Instructional poster with chart explaining Nuremberg blood purity laws.

Object | Accession Number: 1990.120.9

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    Overview

    Brief Narrative
    Educational poster with a chart showing whom those with pure and un-pure blood could marry. It is from a portfolio of teaching panels designed by Alfred Vogel, a school headmaster and Nazi Party member, to instruct students on the superiority of the Aryan race, the virtue of racial purity, and the burden that Jews, as well as the handicapped, mentally ill, and unfit, place on society. For Hitler's government, the indoctrination of children through the required teaching of Nazi ideology was a powerful tool. The teaching of eugenics and racial biology began in primary school. Vogel's series provided illustrated aids on its key aspects, showing in simple pictures the urgency of the Jewish threat, the danger of racial miscegenation, or mixing of races, and how the pure breed will always be strongest, and mixed breeds must be eliminated.
    Artwork Title
    Nuernberger Blutschutzgesetze
    Alternate Title
    Nurnberg blood protection laws
    Series Title
    Erblehre und Rassenkunde no. 70
    Date
    publication/distribution:  1938
    Geography
    publication: Stuttgart (Germany)
    Credit Line
    United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Collection
    Markings
    front, bottom, right outside image, black ink : 70
    front, bottom, red ink : Reinhaltung des Blutes fichert den Fortbeistand des deutschen Volkes! [Maintaining the purity of blood insures the survival of the German people]
    front, bottom right, black ink : 1. Eheschließungen zwischen Juden und Staatsangehörigen / deutschen oder artverwandten Blutes find verboten / 3. Juden dursen weibliche Staatsangehörigen deutschen oder / artverwandten Blutes unter 45 Jahren in ihrem haus- / haslt nicht beschäftigen. / Wer dem Derbot zuwiderhandelt, wird mit Zuchthaus / oder Gesängnis bestraft. [1. Marriages between Jews and nationals of German or related blood are prohibited 3. Jews must not employ female nationals of German or similar blood under the age of 45 in their homes. / Anyone who violates the law will be punished with jail.]
    front, bottom, black ink : Vogel: Erblehre und Rassenkunde. – Alle Rechte vorbehalten.- Verlag für nationale Literatur, Gebr. Rath, Stuttgart-W [Vogel: Theory of Inheritance and Racial Hygiene. – All Rights Reserved. – Publishing Company for national Literature, Gebr. Rath, Stuttgart- Wurttemburg]
    Contributor
    Publisher: Verlag fur nationale Literatur Gebr. Rath
    Author: Alfred Vogel

    Physical Details

    Language
    German
    Classification
    Posters
    Physical Description
    Poster on cardstock with a title phrase in Fraktur font across the top. Outside the wall on the right are excerpts from the Nuremberg laws and on the left is a legend for the chart inside the wall which depicts how racial mixing between Arisch [Aryans] in blue and Judisch [Jewish] in red can be denied or subject to approval. A full Aryan cannot marry a full Jew, and a 75% Jew cannot marry a full Aryan or a person of 25% Aryan 75% Jewish mix. Marriage between a half Jew half Aryan and a full Jew or a person that is 25% Aryan, 75% Jewish needs official approval. There are 2 identical signs that read Halt Rassengesetze [stop race laws]. Below is another sign stating the prevention of non-German immigration. This poster is 9 of 9 in the collection.
    Dimensions
    overall: Height: 11.500 inches (29.21 cm) | Width: 15.375 inches (39.053 cm)
    Materials
    overall : cardstock, ink

    Rights & Restrictions

    Conditions on Access
    No restrictions on access
    Conditions on Use
    No restrictions on use

    Administrative Notes

    Provenance
    The poster was acquired by the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum in 1990.
    Record last modified:
    2023-07-28 15:29:29
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