Higher leaders of the Nazi Party will be required to obtain certificates showing the purity of their racial origins as far back as 1750, the Rechtsspiegel, Nazi Party law journal, announced today. Members of some party groups will be required to prove that ancestors back to 1800, were “Aryan,” while all Germans will be asked to secure certificates showing the race of parents and grandparents.
In cases of illegitimate birth, if more than one person may be presumed to have been the father, the racial status of all such possible fathers will be investigated. “Second degree half-breeds,” persons having two Jewish grandparents, may marry “Aryans” but not Jews. Persons having a larger percentage of Jewish blood may marry Jews but not “Aryans.”
It was announced that 721 Jewish lawyers have been disbarred in Vienna since Austria became a part of Germany.
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