Such relationships were deemed as "blood treason".[3] The Nuremberg Laws did not define people as Jewish by cultural values, but rather looked at how many generations of Jewish grandparents were before them.[5] Specifically, those who had three or four generations of Jewish grandparents were considered Jews, despite any conversions to Christianity.[5] Jews were seen as an inferior race by the Nazis, thus they saw the need to segregate the Jews from the German community.[4] As a result of the Nuremberg Laws, Jewish people were denied German citizenship even though Germany was their homeland.[6] The establishment of the Nuremberg Laws paved the path towards the Holocaust.