From The Washington Post: The National Archives said Tuesday that a California library is transferring to the Archives the two original sets of the notorious Nuremberg Laws, the Nazis’ spare, anti-Semitic manifesto endorsed by Adolf Hitler that helped lead to the extermination of 6 million Jews during World War II.
The laws are being transferred by the Huntington Library, in San Marino, where they have been held since they were placed there by Gen. George S. Patton Jr. in 1945.
Gen. Patton presents the infamous laws to Huntington chairman Robert A. Millikan in 1945.
Each set of the 1935 laws is typed on four pieces of paper, said Archives spokeswoman Susan Cooper. One set is believed to have been signed by Hitler.
One section, the so-called “laws for the protection of German blood and German honor,” forbade such things as marriages between Jews and Germans, and extramarital relations between Jews and “subjects of the state of Germany.”
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