Don’t Relent on Jews, is Cry of Nazi Press, Dashing Hope of Relief

Vigorous opposition in the Nazi party against the relaxation of discrimination against Jewish lawyers resulted yesterday in an official order signed by Minister of Justice Kerrl, to the effect that the limitations against Jewish lawyers must be fully maintained in Prussia until the detailed text of the new ordinance affecting lawyers has been published.

This order was preceded by a communique to the effect that on the basis of the regulations to be laid down by the Central Government it would be possible to find a way of eliminating Jewish lawyers without at the same time inflicting unnecessary harshness.

Thus hopes raised yesterday that the number of Jewish lawyers readmitted to practice would be considerably increased are rendered invalid. The number of Jewish lawyers readmitted to practice in Berlin remains at thirty-five, while measures for the exclusion of Jews in other professions are being carried into effect.

It was announced yesterday that Jewish judges and jurymen of all kinds would be removed from office on June 30th.

At the same time Nazi doctors and Nazi lawyers have been clamoring for the complete expulsion of all Jews from universities and other State institutions. In a joint appeal published by them today in the Nazi “Voelkischer Beobachter” they declare that it was unthinkable that in a Nazi state Jews could still be enabled to spread their poison and saturate the nation with their corruption.

The “Vossische Zeitung,” criticizing the expulsion of teachers, asks why the racial principle of exclusion should not be applied against clergymen one of whose parents or grandparents was Jewish. Clergymen, it was pointed out, are technically state officials and they cannot be excluded from the “purging process” which is now going on.

Should this mocking suggestion be carried out, the greatest historian of the Protestant Church in Germany. August Raender, would be expelled, as his name originally was David Mendel.