Jewish leaders here are elated at the issuance by Gen. Dwight Eisenhower, commander of Allied forces in western Europe, of a proclamation abrogating Nazi racial laws in the portion of Germany held by the Allied armies.
Announcing the fact that Allied Military Government detachments went into action in German towns as soon as they were occupied, Gen. Eisenhower released the text of the proclamations promulgated by AMG, among which is one abrogating the “law for ‘protection of German blood and honor,’ one of the infamous discriminatory Hurenberg laws” and the “Reich citizenship law denying citizenship to those not of German blood.”
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