Central to this persecution were the Nuremberg Laws, passed in 1935, which stripped Jews of their citizenship, rights, and protections under German law.

In the spring of 1945, Martin E. Dannenberg was a 29-year-old U.S. Army sergeant leading a counterintelligence team through southern Germany when he made one of the most startling discoveries of ...

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.

In 1939, there were just under 10 million Jews in all of Europe. There were fewer than 400,000 Jews in Germany. But in 1935, Germany passed the Nuremberg Laws, which stripped Jews of various ...