The Berlin municipality today issued a decree to the effect that no Jewish lawyers or notaries are to be employed for municipal affairs. Almost simultaneously a session of the Nazi Lawyer’s Union held here has passed the following resolution: “All German courts should be immediately cleared of all judges and officials of alien race. Steps are to be taken immediately to prevent the appearance in the courts of lawyers of alien race. Only notaries of Germanic race are to be allowed to carry on their work. We endorse the plan of our leader that 25% of lawyers of alien race shall be eliminated, so that within four years not a single one of them may remain. All lawyers of alien race who belong to Socialist parties shall be immediately refused admission to lawyers’ chambers, which are to be altogether cleared of Jews with the exception of those who are ex-soldiers.”
As Breslau, where Jewish officials were cleared from the courts soon after the general election, the drive against Jews in the legal profession continues unabated. After a mass meeting of Nazi lawyers, the Chief Justice of Breslau announced that a numerus clausus would be fixed for Jewish lawyers. No more than 17 would be allowed to practice in the Breslau courts. All other Jewish lawyers would be banned from the courts and would not be allowed to represent clients. The Lawyers’ Union established at Breslau, consists of Nazis, members of Hugenberg’s Party, and of the Catholic Center.
In addition to the attack on Jews in the legal profession, the campaign against Jewish physicians proceeds furiously. The cancellation of contracts of Jewish physicians in the City Hospitals is announced in a communique by Julius Lippert, Nazi Commissioner in Berlin. Already, hundreds of Jewish high officials have lost their employment and are facing ruln. From the drive against the hospitals, the Nazis have now turned to the expulsion of Jews employed under the National Insurance Fund, and in the hospitals treating persons coming under the State Medical Insurance.
Following the report of the attack on Dr. Zondek, of the Berlin Municipal Hospital, it became known today that members of the Zondek family were badly beaten up, and that almost simultaneously with the removal of Dr. Zondek, some thirty Jewish doctors were expelled from various municipal and urban hospitals.
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