Preference is to be given to the children of Jewish war veterans, and of mixed marriages in which one of #he two parents is of the Aryan race, or to children who can boast of a single Aryan grand-parent. This represents a leniency in comparison to the civil service law, which bars anyone who has even #ne Jewish grand-parent.
The campaign against the Jews who came into Germany from Poland and other Eastern European countries since the war, and who bear the brunt of the Nazi Jew-hatred, is continued through the new student laws. Children of these East-European Jews are altogether barred, even from the high schools. Elementary school attendance is allowed.
The cabinet decree explains that #his drastic measure in the field of education is due to the disproportionately high number of Jews in the liberal professions, while there are “hardly any Jewish manual workers.” The moral and economic influence of the educated non-Aryans has weakened the strength of the nation, according to the decree.
DISMISS JEWISH PROFESSORS
Meanwhile the campaign to purge the university faculties of Jewish influence continues unabated. Twenty-six Jewish professors were discharged from the faculties of Prussian universities by Bernhard Rust, Minister of Culture. Eighteen of these professors were on the faculty of the University of Frankfort-am-Main, seven on the faculty of the University of Gottingen, and one at the University of Marburg.
Among the Frankfort dismissals was that of Dr. Gotthold Weil, celebrated Orientalist. Professor Weil, who enjoys world renown as an authority on the literature of the East, was at one time chief Orientalist for the Berlin State Library, held an Honorary Professorship in the University of Berlin, and is a member of many societies specializing in problems of Jewish scholarship, acting also in an advisory capacity for this department of the Hebrew University in Jerusalem.
YOUTH SOCIETY EXPELS JEWISH UNIT
In spite of the Nazi declaration that the government desires to encourage the development of a larger working class among the Jewish population, the Jewish Youth Association, whose purpose conforms to this tendency, has been expelled from the general German Youth Association. This means that the Jewish organization will lose its right to benefit by the government support which is given to Youth groups.
The general campaign to eliminate Jews from all fields of public activity has been extended into the field of sports and even of chess. All German chess clubs have been brought together into the Grossdeutsche Schachbund, to be headed by the Nazi, Herr Pruske. Jews, always prominent in the chess world, are to be barred.
The Union of German Professional Boxers has published a list of rules which will effectively destroy Jewish participation in that sport. German boxers are ordered to tear up any contract with a Jewish manager, are forbidden to engage Jewish doctors, dentists, or lawyers. Jewish members are ruled off the lists of the clubs, and Jews are forbidden entrance to club-rooms. Bouts financed even in part by Jewish capital are outlawed.
Max Schmeling, the former heavyweight champion, has, however, so far retained his Jewish manager. Schmeling is at present in Portland, Me., with Joe Jacobs, his manager. “Sports have nothing to do with a national movement of this kind,” Schmeling said on his recent return from Germany. Joe Jacobs asserted that they would “simply ignore” the Nazis.
The Archive of the Jewish Telegraphic Agency includes articles published from 1923 to 2008. Archive stories reflect the journalistic standards and practices of the time they were published.
