Book contents
- The Cambridge History of the Holocaust
- The Cambridge History of the Holocaust
- The Cambridge History of the Holocaust
- Copyright page
- Contents
- Figures
- Maps
- Contributors to Volume III
- Abbreviations
- Maps
- General Editor’s Introduction
- Introduction to Volume III
- 1 The Jewish World under Nazi Impact, 1930–1939
- 2 The Churches and the Holocaust
- 3 Lost In-between: Refugee Migration during the Holocaust
- 4 Jewish Forced Labor: From Coerced Segregated Deployment to Slave Labor, 1938–1945
- 5 “To Prevent Something Worse”: Strategies, Constraints, and Choices Made by the Jewish Councils in Western Europe
- 6 Jewish Councils and Jewish Ghetto Police in Eastern Europe
- 7 Diaries and Chronicles
- 8 Jewish Experiences of Segregation and Ghettoization
- 9 Religious Practice during the Holocaust
- 10 Cultural Activity in the Holocaust
- 11 Facing the Unfathomable: Victims’ Reactions to the Deportations to Death Camps
- 12 Jews in Concentration Camps, 1933–1945
- 13 Gray Zones and Sonderkommandos: Power and Morality in Auschwitz–Birkenau and Other National Socialist Concentration Camps
- 14 Hiding and Passing as Non-Jews in Poland, 1942–1945
- 15 Surviving in the Soviet Union
- 16 Uprisings and Mass Escapes in Ghettos and Camps
- 17 Jews in Armed Resistance Movements and Partisan Units
- 18 Gender and Jewish Experience during the Holocaust
- 19 Sexual Exploitation and Violence during the Holocaust
- 20 The Jewish Family during the Holocaust
- 21 Jewish Children’s Experiences during the Holocaust
- 22 Mixed Race, Mixed Marriage, and Jewish Christians
- 23 Mentally and Physically Disabled Persons as Victims of Nazism
- 24 Homosexuals
- 25 Roma
- 26 Slavs and Soviet POWs
- 27 Help and Rescue in Eastern Europe: The Case of Poland
- 28 Jewish Self-Help and Rescue in Germany and Nazi-Occupied Western Europe, 1941–1945
- 29 International Responses to the Jewish Refugee Crisis, 1939–1945
- 30 The Allies and the Holocaust
- Index
- References
22 - Mixed Race, Mixed Marriage, and Jewish Christians
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 16 May 2025
Book contents
- The Cambridge History of the Holocaust
- The Cambridge History of the Holocaust
- The Cambridge History of the Holocaust
- Copyright page
- Contents
- Figures
- Maps
- Contributors to Volume III
- Abbreviations
- Maps
- General Editor’s Introduction
- Introduction to Volume III
- 1 The Jewish World under Nazi Impact, 1930–1939
- 2 The Churches and the Holocaust
- 3 Lost In-between: Refugee Migration during the Holocaust
- 4 Jewish Forced Labor: From Coerced Segregated Deployment to Slave Labor, 1938–1945
- 5 “To Prevent Something Worse”: Strategies, Constraints, and Choices Made by the Jewish Councils in Western Europe
- 6 Jewish Councils and Jewish Ghetto Police in Eastern Europe
- 7 Diaries and Chronicles
- 8 Jewish Experiences of Segregation and Ghettoization
- 9 Religious Practice during the Holocaust
- 10 Cultural Activity in the Holocaust
- 11 Facing the Unfathomable: Victims’ Reactions to the Deportations to Death Camps
- 12 Jews in Concentration Camps, 1933–1945
- 13 Gray Zones and Sonderkommandos: Power and Morality in Auschwitz–Birkenau and Other National Socialist Concentration Camps
- 14 Hiding and Passing as Non-Jews in Poland, 1942–1945
- 15 Surviving in the Soviet Union
- 16 Uprisings and Mass Escapes in Ghettos and Camps
- 17 Jews in Armed Resistance Movements and Partisan Units
- 18 Gender and Jewish Experience during the Holocaust
- 19 Sexual Exploitation and Violence during the Holocaust
- 20 The Jewish Family during the Holocaust
- 21 Jewish Children’s Experiences during the Holocaust
- 22 Mixed Race, Mixed Marriage, and Jewish Christians
- 23 Mentally and Physically Disabled Persons as Victims of Nazism
- 24 Homosexuals
- 25 Roma
- 26 Slavs and Soviet POWs
- 27 Help and Rescue in Eastern Europe: The Case of Poland
- 28 Jewish Self-Help and Rescue in Germany and Nazi-Occupied Western Europe, 1941–1945
- 29 International Responses to the Jewish Refugee Crisis, 1939–1945
- 30 The Allies and the Holocaust
- Index
- References
Summary
The Nuremberg Laws of 1935 prohibited marriage between people “of German blood” and Jews (including, in practice, “half-Jews”). So-called mixed marriages already in existence were subjected to persecutory measures. This chapter examines the fates of couples in mixed marriages and their “mixed-blood” children, both inside Germany and in Nazi-occupied Europe.
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- The Cambridge History of the Holocaust , pp. 365 - 381Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2025
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