In the period between 1933 and 1936, the Nazi regime implemented laws that defined who was and was not Jewish according to ancestry. Any person with three or four Jewish grandparents was considered a "full-blooded" Jew. This approach to dividing and categorizing people relies on the assumption that:

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The Nazi regime's approach to categorizing people based on ancestry in order to determine their "Jewishness" relied on the assumption that race is a biological reality. This approach is rooted in eugenics, the belief that certain races are inherently superior to others, and that genetic traits such as intelligence, moral character, and physical appearance are passed down through bloodlines. The concept of race as a biological reality has been widely discredited by modern science, which recognizes that race is a social construct with no basis in genetics.

In the Period Between 1933 and 1936, the Nazi Regime