Reports that the Austrian Government recognizes the validity of the Nuremberg anti-Jewish laws were officially denied here today.
The reports were widely circulated following an official statement that the Nazi law prohibiting intermarriage between “Aryans” and Jews is applicable to Jewish subjects of the Reich living in Austria.
It was explained today that this statement was based on the Hague international marriage convention of June 12, 1928, by which signatories agreed to observe the marriage laws of those nations which were parties to the convention.
The Austrian Chancellory’s statement, issued Feb. 4. announced that when the German authorities refuse to issue a “certificate of fitness for marriage” to an “Aryan” wishing to be married to a “non-Aryan”, the refusal must be recognized in Austria.
The Official Gazette of the Vienna Archbishopric, reporting the announcement, declared that neither register offices nor Catholic Churches can wed Germans refused licenses in the Reich.
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