All German lawyers were today ordered “as early as possible” to dissolve their partnerships with Jewish and partly-Jewish attorneys under penalty of expulsion from the Reich Jurists Association.
The order was issued by Minister of the Interior Wilhelm Frick in his capacity as leader of the association and sets January 4, 1936, as the deadline for compliance. “Aryan” attorneys who do not sever their relations with Jewish partners by that date must report their reasons to the association’s headquarters in Berlin.
That Mayor Heinrich Sahm, who was recently reported on trial before a Nazi Party court for allegedly having patronized a Jewish department store, is scheduled to be deprived of his post was indicated in stories appearing today in Der Voelkischer Beobachter and Der Angriff, two leading Nazi party organs. The reports state that Frick in his speech on the functions of the German press yesterday definitely announced that the “dualism of authority of Dr. Sahm as Mayor of Berlin and Dr. Julius Lippert as Nazi Commissar of the city will soon be abolished.”
In a front page editorial headlined “Unwritten Laws,” the Beobachter points out that the Nuremberg laws are not sufficient. “Besides the Nuremberg laws and their details,” the editorial says, “there are also strict orders issued by individual organizations in the Nazi movement which every member of the party must obey. These orders provide for stricter limitations and aim at sharper results than the laws issued by the State.”
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