The decision of the Karlsruhe lower court on the question of the dissolution of mixed marriages between “Aryans” and “non-Aryans” is of such fundamental importance and affects so many people that it cannot be held binding and is not to enter into effect until it has been approved by the German Supreme Court, a ruling handed down today by the Court of Appeals held.
The full text of the decision of the Karlsruhe court, which was published today, established that in the view of the court: “Jewish life is totally different from “Aryan’ life and that mixed marriages are undesirable, monstrous, pernicious and unnatural.”
The court held that “even though the ‘Aryan clause’ does not regulate this question, a divorce is necessary.”
The question of mixed marriages between Jews and Gentiles has assumed enormous importance since the advent of the Nazis. Legislation and courts have made it extremely easy for “Aryans” to divorce their “non-Aryan” mates on the ground that such marriages are against the racial policy of the Third Reich.
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