More than 200 German aristocrats have been expelled from the German Nobles Association because their blood has been “Jew tainted” since 1800, the London Daily Telegraph reported today. The group has 13,000 members.
The expulsion of German aristocrats with Jewish blood in their veins was begun immediately after the Hitlerite regime came into power. Colonel von Stein was appointed administrator of the association and he announced that all those with Jewish blood would be removed from the register of German nobles. Recently he announced that the group was energetically carrying out the necessary expulsion. German nobles did not want “descendants of Shylock” in their ranks, he said.
Previous to the World War a number of impoverished German noble families intermarried with rich Jewish families anxious for social prestige. Under the terms of the “Aryan clause” even Baron Manfred von Richthofen, outstanding German aviation hero of the World War, would have been expelled, since he was partly Jewish.
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