Jewish children in the Hamburg schools will be compelled to attend anti-Semitic lectures in racial science, according to orders issued today by the Hamburg racial department.
All elementary schools must establish compulsory classes where the Jewish question is to be emphasized as an illustration of the “danger of blood mixing and its devastating influence on the German nation”, the racial department ordered.
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