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160,000 Jews Change Names in Berlin

March 20, 1939
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A total of 160,000 Berlin Jews have altered their names or added to them the first names of Israel or Sarah in compliance with a Nazi decree, according to Volk und Rasse, organ of the State Department of National Health and the German Society for Racial Hygiene. The newspaper also reported that a new decree will be introduced under which Jews will be compelled to change such “Aryan” surnames as Deutschmann, Preuss and Berliner to their former Jewish names.

Der Angriff, organ of Propaganda Minister Paul Joseph Goebbels, reports that a synagogue at Coblenz will be converted into a Nazi kindergarten and Hitler Youth home.

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