Under the legal and administrative system of Nazi Germany, people categorized as Fremdvolkische (literally, foreign people ) were subject to special laws that restricted their rights, limited their protection under the law, and exposed them to extraordinary legal sanctions and brutal, extralegal police actions. These special laws, one of the central constitutional principles of the Third Reich, applied to anyone perceived as different or racially inferior, whether German citizens or not. " Non-Germans under the Third Reich" traces the establishment and evolution of these laws from the...
Under the legal and administrative system of Nazi Germany, people categorized as Fremdvolkische (literally, foreign people ) were subject to special l...