The Thuringian Diet adopted to-day the motion introduced by the Socialist Party recommended to it by the Budget Commission which accepted it a short while back condemning the appointment of the antisemitic theoretician, Dr. Guenther, as Professor of Raceclogy at Jena University by the Hitlerist leader, Dr. Frick, at the time he was Minister of Education and Interior. There is no real scientific need for such a Chair, the resolution says, and the establishment of an unnecessary Chair at a time of financial stress like the present is an act of irresponsibility.
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