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German Court Sentences Catholic for Hiding Part-jewish Ancestry in Seeking Job

December 24, 1937
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THE LEIPZIG CRIMINAL COURT HAS SENTENCED A CATHOLIC OF MIXED “ARYAN” AND JEWISH ANCESTRY TO FOUR MONTHS ‘IMPRISONMENT FOR HIDING HIS PART-JEWISH ORIGIN WHEN APPLYING FOR A JOB, IT WAS REPORTED HERE TODAY.

THE ACCUSED, SEEKING A POSITION WITH A MUSICAL PERIODICAL, WAS ASKED IN A LETTER WHETHER HE WAS AN “ARYAN,” AND REPLIED, ACCORDING TO THE COURT, “I AM A CATHOLIC OF CATHOLIC ORIGIN,” THUS SECURING EMPLOYMENT DESPITE THE FACT HIS MOTHER WAS A JEWESS AND OBTAINING HIS SALARY “UNDER FALSE PRETENSes.”

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