Radical anti-Semites agitated against their legal betterment, and often succeeded in including the "German-blooded" partner married to a "half-Jew" in persecution measures.
The first legal definition of the term "non-Aryan" can be found in the First Ordinance on the Implementation of Law for the Restoration of the Professional Civil Service of 11 April 1933 (RGBl.
Until 1937, "Jewish hybrids" remained unchallenged with regard to their economic activities, and largely unaffected by the prohibitions and restrictions on professions directed against "non-Aryans".
The first legal provision restricting the professional existence of the "German-blooded" partner in a "mixed marriage" was enacted on 30 June 1933, and concerned prospective civil servants.
The "non-Aryan descent" was defined according to the First Ordinance on the Implementation of the Restoration of Professional Civil Service (RGBl 1933 I, p. 195): It was sufficient if "one parent or one grandparent" was considered "not Aryan".
[9] Radical anti-Semitic forces within the NSDAP attempted to abolish all preferential treatment of "first-degree Jewish hybrids"[10] They repeatedly succeeded in including in discriminatory measures also those "Jews who were married to a so-called "half-Jew".
"[11] A memorandum from the party chancellery in the spring of 1944 contained the suggestion that "jüdisch Versippte" who were married to "first-degree half-breeds" would not be allowed to work as self-employed businessmen, craftsmen or factory owners after the end of the war.
[21] In October 1943, Fritz Sauckel commissioned the "Gauarbeitsämter" to organize the forced deployment of the "non-defensive half-Jews" and the "Aryans married to fully Jewish women".
In October 1944, Heinrich Himmler then ordered all men of the groups defined as such, who were fit for service, to be transferred within three days to construction battalions of the Organisation Todt.
The kidnapping took place under the camouflage name Sonderkommando J, and is regarded by the historian Ursula Büttner as the victory of the "race experts" of the NSDAP: ""Jüdisch Versippte", who, in spite of all pressure, held to their Jewish spouses unswervingly, were now assigned to the Jews.