The campaign to prohibit officially all Jews in trade is spreading rapidly over Germany, despite the efforts of the Minister of Economics, Kurt Schmitt, to check discriminations against the Jews.
Many local authorities officially have ordered the Jews to close their stores altogether and not to deal with Jews.
In Munich the police at the order of the municipality posted instructions all over the city, prohibiting the Jews, even foreign Jews, to sell merchandise or foodstuffs during the month of October. At the same time they were forbidden to employ Jews in any store.
The convention of grain dealers which opened today in Munich prohibited all Jews from having anything to do with grain trading, no matter in what capacity.
At Erdpenhausen near Kassel, a non-Jewish land owner who employed a Jewish boy was arrested together with the boy and released only upon signing a promise not to employ Jews.
The municipality of Toeltz officially prohibited Jews from trading during the annual fair in October.
In Affenheim, the municipality announced the expulsion of all Jews from the local market.
The Deutsche Volkswirtschaft defines Aryan enterprises as meaning businesses where the proprietors, shareholders and staffs have been Aryan for three generations. Similarly, German products are defined as those produced by German workers from German materials.
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