To force the Jewish owners of the Bach-rach Bros. Department Store to employ “Aryan” help, the local authorities of the city of Magdeburg today publicly charged all the store’s Jewish employes with maintaining intimate relations with the “Aryan” salesgirls.
The chief of police announced officially that he has forced the store’s owners to dismiss the director of personnel and replace him with a member of the Nazi party.
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