A second way of reclassification was by way of declaratory judgment in court . Usually the discriminated person took the action , questioning their descent from the Jewish-classified man until then regarded as their biological ( grand ) father . Paternity suits aiming for reclassification ( ) appeared mostly with deceased , divorced , or illegitimate ( grand ) fathers . They usually sought to change the discriminated litigant 's status from Jewish-classified to '' Mischling '' of first degree , or from '' Mischling '' of first degree to second degree . The numbers of such suits soared whenever the Nazi government imposed new discriminations and persecutions ( such as the Nuremberg Laws 1935 , Kristallnacht in 1938 , and systematic deportations of Jewish Germans and Gentile Germans of Jewish descent to concentration camps , 1941 )
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