Since September 1935, a set of purely racist legal norms had been in force in Nazi Germany, legalizing state discrimination against people identified as Jews. These came to be known as the Nuremberg Laws because they were proclaimed at a party congress in Nuremberg. They defined citizenship on the basis of blood, prohibited sexual contact and marriage between people identified as Jews and “Aryans,” and deprived Jewish residents of their civil rights. Admirers of the Nazi regime in the Czechoslovak border region would have liked to see such laws implemented as well.
After the annexation of the Czechoslovak border region to Nazi Germany in the fall of 1938, this became a reality. The Nuremberg Laws were also in force in Ústí nad Labem from that time on.