The dissemination of propaganda designed to incite race hatred is declared a punishable offense in Article 6 of the Constitution of the East German Republic. The clause also states that persons convicted of the propagation of race hatred shall be disqualified from holding government posts and shall be disenfranchised and debarred from taking any leading post in the economic and cultural spheres.
(Dr. Friedrich Wolf, noted German-Jewish author of “Dr. Mamlock” and other plays, has been appointed the East German Republic’s first envoy to Poland, it was announced in Warsaw today. A delegation of writers and intellectuals, headed by East Germany’s Education Minister Paul Wandel, and including Jewish writer Arnold Zweig arrived in the Polish capital to participate in a Johann Wolfgang Goethe festival.)
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