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District 16 instructed that in Magdeburg, as in the entire country, an index of Jews
and Jewish organisations was to be created. As a result, lists of community
members and members of Jewish organisations were to be reported quarterly
henceforth. These reports had to be submitted in triplicate and include departures
resulting from relocation, death and emigration, as well as the arrival of new
members. 17 This small selection of policies toward the Jews in the city prior to the
Nuremberg Laws provides evidence of the clear policy to commence the isolation
of the Jewish community, to maintain surveillance of it, in addition to the
tabulating of data on the community. Simultaneously, the community suffered
steadily from ongoing boycotts and public defamation. However, Nazi policy in
itself was still largely evolving with regard to its measures toward the Jews. The
full force of the development of this policy was felt on 15 September 1935 when
the next phase was introduced with the enactment of the Nuremberg Laws, which
marked the permanent segregation and the absolute disenfranchisement of Jews.
In a special session of the Reichstag at the Nazi Party convention in
Nuremberg on 15 September 1935, three new laws were promulgated. Das Gesetz
zum Schutze des deutschen Blutes und der deutschen Ehre 18 prohibited marriage
and sexual relations between Jews and ‘Aryans’ and banned ‘Aryan’ women
under the age of forty-five from working in Jewish households. The
Reichsflaggengesetz prohibited Jews from ‘displaying national colours,’ while at
16 Rundschreiben Nr. 340/35; Betr.: Judenkartei, 2. September 1935, Bestand Rep. C
31, Signatur Nr. 26, LHASA MD, p. 79.
17 Ibid., p. 79.
18 Reichsausschuss für Volksgesundheit, Das Reichsbürgergesetz vom 15. September
1935 und Das Gesetz zum Schutze des deutschen Blutes und der deutschen Ehre vom
15. September 1935 mit Ausführungsverordnungen vom 14. November und 21.
November 1935 Berlin: Reichsdruckerei, 1936, Bestand Rep. C 28 I g, Signatur Nr.
460, Band 3, LHASA MD, pp. 33–44.