Regulations restricting Jews in the field of commerce will be promulgated not later than Christmas, it was disclosed today in the German press which reports that the final draft of the regulations has already been prepared.
The announcement lends emphasis to the statement ade at Hamburg last night by General Hermann Wilhelm Goering, Minister of Air, that “Jews will be isolated in commerce as they are isolated in cultural life.” General Goering declared that with the promulgation of the Nuremberg laws the larger part of the Nazi program against the Jews has been settled.
He added, however, that “other clauses of our program will also be carried out, but their tempo is to be decided only by the Fuehrer.”
Today’s press declares that “the law regulating Jewish activities in economics” is based on the Nuremberg laws and will be effective immediately after it has been promulgated.
According to the press the official interpretations of the economic law have already been printed and will be distributed to the courts before the end of the year.
Meanwhile, the Juristische Wochenschrift, organ of the Ministry of Justice, reports today that Jewish lawyers will be barred from practice even before promulgation of the economic law.
Quoting for the first time the secret decisions of the Association of National Socialist Jurists, which have the approval of Minister of Justice Frank, the publication points out that there is no reason why application of the Nuremberg laws to the legal
profession should be postponed. The publication states that the only exceptions to the laws should be Jewish lawyers wounded in the war or those possessing high decorations for war service.
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