Cologne authorities have interpreted a recent Berlin court decision prohibiting Jews from occupying any honorary positions, as forbidding them also from becoming legal executors of wills drawn up by “Aryans.”
In a case where an “Aryan” appoints a Jew as administrator of a will, Cologne officials say, the appointment is illegal since it is regarded as against the interests of the German people.
The interpretation of this judicial decision, by German law, becomes at once retroactive, meaning that present Jewish executors must be replaced by “Aryans.”
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