History GCSE
Legal discrimination
What Legal discrimination means in History GCSE, as defined for Pearson Edexcel.
Definition of Legal discrimination
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The marginalising of Jewish people through legislation such as the Nuremberg Laws, which stripped them of citizenship and banned intermarriage.
Topics that use Legal discrimination
- Option 31: Key topic 4: Life in Nazi Germany, 1933–39 - 4 The persecution of minorities (Pearson Edexcel GCSE)
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