Introducing the Reich

Unfortunately, Hitler's ideology did not stay confined to the incendiary pages of Mein Kampf. A series of Nuremberg Laws were drawn up in to enforce the "protection of German blood and German honor." The first law separates Jews from Germans and establishes harsh consequences for those who refuse to acknowledge legislative xenophobia. It's a perfect case of the "separate but equal" syndrome; the law prevents Germans from marrying Jews, Jews from employing Germans, and German-Jew extramarital sex. However, Jews can display their own flag if not the German one, which is apparently a protected "exercise of right." Thus, some pretense of legality is established, only to be further deconstructed by subsequent laws denying Jews as citizens of the Reich. The third Nuremberg measure replacing the German flag with the Nazi swastika fully incorporated xenophobia into the sociopolitical structure of Germany.