The Jews were informed today that because they receive protection they have “the obligation to place their possessions in the hands of the state when necessary.
This statement was made by Dr. Wilhelm Stuckart, State Secretary in the Ministry of Interior, writing in the special third anniversary issue of Hitler’s Voelkischer Beobachter, chief organ of the Nazi Party.
Defining the obligations of the Jews to the Nazi state, Dr. Stuckart declared that they are obligated because of the protection they receive and because they are “allowed to participate in economic life within the framework of the existing laws.”
He concluded with the statement that the “Nuremberg laws are the realization of the demand, “Germany for the Germans,’ and they will be considered the national basis of the German nation.”
Meanwhile, Jewish schools joined today in observing the third anniversary of Hitler’s accession to the chancellorship. Although Jewish schools are prohibited by law from displaying the German flag, the teachers told their classes that Nazism has united the German nation and the Jewish religion will unite all Jews.
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