The usually well-informed Prager Presse reports from Berlin today that Julius Lippert, Nazi Commissar for Berlin, has dissolved the representative assembly of the Berlin Jewish Community.
The report states that Herr Lippert appointed in place of the assembly an executive body of seven, including Georg Kareski, Nazi-appointed president of the Jewish Culture Union and a leader of the German State Zionist Party.
Herr Lippert’s action, according to the Prager Presse, was based on a law enacted in 1847, before the emancipation of German Jews.
The same newspaper reports that the Gestapo, secret State police, has warned the Jewish Winter Relief Committee in Berlin not to communicate with emigrant Jews, even those who are active in relief organizations abroad. Imprisonment is threatened for failure to heed the warning.
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