In Nazi Germany, were Jews that renounced their faith spared from persecution? Or was it a matter of simply being born a Jew (practicing or not) that made them a target?

by swiftskill
kieslowskifan

No.

The Third Reich defined Jewishness via ancestry in the Nuremberg Laws. Religious observance, or the lack of it, was irrelevant for the Nazi racial system. A German could have been the most enthusiastic Christian convert or an atheist from a family of the most non-observant Jews to have ever walked the earth, and it would not have mattered.