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I agree with Courtney Ayers when she talked about the Jews. I also agree with you Maxwell when you said that the American and German racial views. The Nazi Nuremberg Laws of 1935 were denaturalization laws passed by the government of Nazi Germany. They used a pseudoscientific basis for racial discrimination against Jews. People with four German grandparents (white circles on the chart illustration) were of "German blood", while people were classified as Jews if they descended from three or more Jewish grandparents One or more Jewish grandparents made someone "mixed blood." The Nazis used the religious observance of a person's grandparents to determine their raceRace was arguably the major theoretical foundation of anthropology in the first half of the 20th century.However, a closer look shows that both shared several important presuppositions which derived from a similar conceptual matrix. These presuppositions distinguished them from mainstream American and British anthropology. In the wake of social functionalism, race lost much of its significance in British anthropology. Race continued, nevertheless, to occupy a central place in American and German anthropology.