Interior Minister Wilhelm Frick tonight demanded for German minorities everywhere the “right to live” outside the Reich’s guaranteed frontiers, both in Europe and in “the most distant countries beyond the seas.”
While Dr. Frick did say so, Reich spokesmen have on numerous past occasions made it clear that in their view the “right to live” includes the right to profess fealty to Nazi decline, even in cases where racial Germans are citizens of other countries.
The Interior Minster discussed the minorities question at length in a lecture before a group of Nazi leaders. Although his topic was “non-Germans in this country than there Germans in other countries.
“It is evident,” he declared, “that the treatment accorded to German groups in other countries cannot be without reciprocal effect on the treatment given to corresponding non-German groups living in the Reich.”
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