The Reichsverband of Christian Citizens of non-Aryan descent, which was officially formed yesterday, must submit a list of its members to the secret political police, it was learned today.
The Verband was formed last night in the presence of government authorities, Nazi press representatives and representatives of the Catholic and Evangelical churches.
The newly formed organization aims to speak for some 6,000,000
Germans, Christian by belief, but who have been declared non-German by the Nazi government because one of their parents or grandparents was Jewish.
One of the leaders of the newly formed group, Herr Gunther Alexander Katz, a decorated war veteran, declared that “something must be done to make it possible for the millions of non-Aryan Germans, who have been Germans for generations, to serve their deeply beloved fatherland. We are Germans and we want to remain Germans,” he said.
“We hold that besides the community of blood there is a community of German nationalism born of a common faith, a common experience and a common feeling.”
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