(J. T. A. Mail Service)
The question of the prohibition of Shechita came up in the Thuringian Diet yesterday. Deputy von Bassewitz, who reported on behalf of the Commission, appointed to consider the question, said that the Jena Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals held that the killing of animals without their being stunned previously was cruel and should in its opinion not be tolerated any longer. Article 135 of the Constitution of the Federal Republic, however, guaranteed to all citizens the unrestricted exercise of their religion, and since the question of Shechita was to be raised also in other German States, he proposed that no definite attitude should be adopted on the question for the present, but that the Diet should confine itself to transmitting the memorandum of the Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals to the Government for its attention.
In the course of the debate which followed, the only National Socialist present in the House, Deputy Marschler, moved a resolution that Shechita should be prohibited forthwith. Deputy Dr. Kiess moved an amendment that the House pass to next business. Both the resolution and the amendment were defeated. The proposal of the Commission to transmit the memorandum to the Government for attention was approved.
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