 It also played a prominent role in the Nazi German regime, in fascist regimes throughout Europe, and during the early years of Japan's Shōwa period.These governments advocated and implemented ideologies and policies that were racist, xenophobic, and, in the case of Nazism, genocidal.The Nuremberg Race Laws of 1935 prohibited sexual relations between any Aryan and Jew, considering it "Rassenschande", "racial pollution".