The Imperial War Museum, a British national institution tasked with recording all the United Kingdom’s military conflicts since 1914, has doubled down on an information board that according to critics falsely suggested that the Nazis targeted observant Jews and their descendants in particular, The Guardian reported last week.
The information board refers to the Nuremberg race laws passed by the Nazi regime in Germany in 1935, which included a definition of who was Jewish. Under these laws, anyone with three or four Jewish grandparents was a Jew, and anyone with one or two Jewish grandparents was Mischlinge, or mixed race.
The information board stated that, under the law, “a person was defined as Jewish based on how many observant Jewish grandparents they had.”
Whereas the law did not