The law prohibiting mixed marriages, whose enactment had been predicted, was officially announced today at the press conference in Dortmund by Dr. Brauss, director of the “Racial Department” of the Nazi government. The law, forbidding Aryans to marry persons of Jewish extraction, under severe penalty for both parties to the marriage, will shortly be promulgated, Dr. Brauss announced. Its aim, he said, is the “preservation of the race.”
JTA has documented Jewish history in real-time for over a century. Keep our journalism strong by joining us in supporting independent, award-winning reporting.
The Archive of the Jewish Telegraphic Agency includes articles published from 1923 to 2008. Archive stories reflect the journalistic standards and practices of the time they were published.
