An order published today prohibits anyone from studying material on Jewish history of the 19th and 20th centuries contained in the Prussian State archives unless personal permission of Minister Hermann Goering has first been obtained. All material taken from those archives must be submitted to censorship before publication, the order states.
The order makes impossible the compilation of a history of the Jews in Germany from an impartial, non-Nazi view. Goering “advises” other German states to enact similar measures.
Recently, the new institute for German history announced it was gathering material for the writing of a history of the Jews in Germany and asked all Germans to assist in this project by submitting all available data either in writing or orally that would shed light on the Jewish question.
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