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Mixed marriages beteen Aryans and non-Aryans brought a threat to the power of the Nazi regime. While groups such as Jews, Sinti and Roma, and homosexuals were an easy target for exploitation, intermarriage made it difficult for Germans to exploit the non-Aryan partner’s since the Aryans partner usually fought for their non-Aryan partner. Germans did not stop exploitation until it was their family members that were targeted. Nazis did not like the idea of kinship and family ties. This dislike lead the Nazis to pass the Nuremburg laws that prohibited the marriage between and Aryan and a non-Aryan to protect the purity of the German blood. This law faced many complications since there were many mixed Jews living in Germany and many more thinking getting married to a Jew. A movie that highlighted the fate of a mischlinge, a mixed child of an Aryan and non-Aryan, and a young mixed married couple was Rosentraasse. Movies are a medium that encompasses a long story in typically shorter time, where a book can cover longer history. Movie directors are in some ways translators of texts or their subjects; therefore, they have the ability to add or delete parts they prefer from a piece of writing. While the movie …show more content…
Her Aryan father divorced her Jewish mother, leaving her as an orphan and rejecting their ties, who had no one to help her. The texts also highlight that many Aryan men that mixed with non-Aryans divorced their wives with little hesitation, just like Ruth’s father. Her father did not protect her, but Lena does. The texts also highlights the many children who had been abondend by thir fathers. In the text: When his mother—a convert to Christianity-died, a young baptized "Mischting" saw his "Aryan" father marries another "Aryan" and his own status in the family decline. His father told him that his previous marriage and the boy's presence would ruin his career as a civil

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