the third law forbade marriage and any intimate extramarital relations between jews and non-jewish german citizens (the latter denigrated as race disgrace). while the law left existing marriages between non-jewish and jewish spouses untouched it banned future such marriages and declared marriages by a non-jewish german and a jewish spouse of any nationality contracted after that ban outside of germany invalid within the reich. furthermore, jews were forbidden from employing non-jewish german women or women of equivalent racist ranking who were under 45 years old. under this law, jews were also forbidden to raise the then german flag.