A sweeping campaign to completely “Aryanize” Nazi Germany began today under the direction of Dr. Wilhelm Frick, Nazi Minister of the Interior for the Reich and Prussia.
Dr. Frick issued an official order notifying all employes of the German government regardless of their position that they must without delay once again submit proof that they and their wives are “pure Aryans.”
Dr. Frick’s order was hailed by extremist anti-Jewish elements in the Third Reich as evidence that the Nazi government had no intention of easing up in the campaign against the Jews.
Added significance was lent Dr. Frick’s order by an article published this week in a leading Nazi paper by Dr. Joachim Goercke, head of the racial division of the Ministry of the Interior. Dr. Goercke openly declared that the
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