 There was a sizeable community of Iranian Jews in Paris when Adolf Hitler invaded and occupied the city.Leaning on the national socialist perception that Iranians were Aryan, Nazi Germany had also declared Iranians to be immune to all Nuremberg Laws since 1936, as they were "pure-blooded Aryans" according to their racial theory.The Iranian government of the time during Reza Shah was able to protect Iranian Jews, whose families had been present in Iran since the time of the Persian Empire.