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Nazis Trace “aryanism” of Berlin Converts to 1800

December 15, 1936
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The Nazis have started a new investigation into family records of all residents of the capital converted to Christianity back to 1800, it was disclosed today, because as the Voelkischer Beobachter put it, “every Berlin resident is able to identify Aryan antecedents for four generations.”

The records in the investigation just completed required the services of 33 typists working a whole year.

All children of mixed marriages are to be expelled from sports clubs, it was announced. They will include those with “25 per cent Jewish blood, “who are not classed as “non-Aryans” under the Nuremberg marriage and citizenship laws.

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