While Reich Minister of the Interior Dr. Wilhelm Frick urged German government officials not to apply the socalled Aryan clause in business. Paul Joseph Goebbels, Minister of Propaganda and Public Enlightenment, was supporting the opposite view in a speech delivered before the Reichskulturbund. Goebbels pointed out the possibility of interpreting the clause in spheres beyond officialdom to which Frick had waged its limitation.
“I notice that Jews eliminated from the professions are now seeking new occupations in other spheres,” Goebbels said. “While there is no Aryan clause for the Kultur Kammer (Chamber of Culture), nevertheless the influx of Jewish elsments might be checked under the law providing for the exclusion of the unfit. I consider Jews generally unfit to administer German culture,” the Minister of Propaganda declared.
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