In 1935, the Nazis under Adolf Hitler introduced laws to discriminate against Germany's Jewish population, culminating in the Holocaust. When Adolf Hitler had his so-called "race laws" passed by the Nazified parliament in Nuremberg on September 15, 1935, the persecution of the Jewish population had long been part of everyday life. Nevertheless, the laws depriving the Jewish population of their rights were a decisive step on the path to Germany's policy of extermination. Nuremberg Laws legalized injusticeThe laws had two main provisions: firstly, they prohibited the Jewish population from marrying so-called 'Aryans' and even made sexual contact a criminal offense. Although they remained German citizens, they were no longer citizens of the Third Reich.