“Aryan” lawyers in the major concerns of Vienna were advised today to dismiss their Jewish assistants and to avoid entering into any arrangements with Jewish experts.
This step was taken as a result of the campaign going on through-out Austria silently to introduce the “Aryan Paragraph” restrictions against Jews along the same lines as in Nazi Germany.
A survey discloses a heavy decrease in the number of Jewish lawyers employed by Austrian industrial firms. The same survey shows a corresponding increase in the number of “Aryan” lawyers employed by these firms.
It was explained here today that the dismissals of Jewish lawyers in the Austrian industrial firms is due chiefly to the pressure exercised by the Credit Anstalt, the government credit bank on which these firms are dependent for their credits. The bank is actively working for the elimination of Jews from all fields of life. This policy has been openly adopted by the bank since the recent reorganization instituted there by the government.
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