The Nuremberg Laws classification chart
A decision diagram of circles and crosses that sorted people into German, Jewish and mixed by counting their grandparents. It is here because it shows what a clear diagram is capable of: it made a bureaucratic rule look like a fact of nature, and it was used to strip people of citizenship and then of their lives.
The imagery is not reproduced here; the link goes to the Holocaust Memorial Museum.
By
Nazi Germany · 1935
Where
History & power · Persecution
Form
Static image · to inform
Visual
Hierarchy, Colour
Original