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101. The Nazis even classified people according to how many Jewish grandparents they had!

The Nazis developed a very complex system for determining who was or was not legally classified as a Jew.

Mischling (German: [ˈmɪʃlɪŋ]; lit. "mix-ling"; plural: Mischlinge) was a pejorative legal term used in Nazi Germany to denote persons of both "Aryan" and non-Aryan, such as Jewish ancestry as codified in the Nuremberg racial laws of 1935. In German, the word has the general denotation of hybrid, mongrel, or half-breed.

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Nazi definitions of Mischling

As defined by the Nuremberg Laws in 1935, a "full Jew" (Istjude or Volljude in Nazi terminology) was a person – regardless of religious affiliation or self-identification – who had at least three grandparents who had been enrolled with a Jewish congregation or were married to a Jewish spouse. A person with two Jewish grandparents was also legally "Jewish" (so-called Geltungsjude, roughly speaking, in English: "Jew by legal validity" or "to be deemed/reckoned as a Jew" ) if that person met any of these racial conditions created by Nazis:

- Was enrolled as a member of a Jewish congregation when the Nuremberg Laws were issued or joined later
- Was married to a "full Jew".
- Was the offspring from a marriage with a Jew, which was concluded after the ban on mixed marriages.
- Was the offspring of an extramarital affair with a Jew, born out of wedlock after 31 July 1936.

A person who did not belong to any of these categorical conditions, but had two Jewish grandparents was classified as a Jewish Mischling of the first degree according to the racial constructs implemented by Nazis. A person with only one Jewish grandparent was classified as a Mischling of the second degree.

Lots more, including footnotes, references, etc., at the source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mischling