Although Jews are barred from the German army in peacetime, they will be drafted for service in the event war breaks out, according to a Government order published today.
The order, which was signed March 21, states that Jews will be assigned under present military regulations to “Military Reserve Number 2.”
Meanwhile, the Government today gave Jewish veterans permission to leave Germany in a statement answering a query from the Jewish War Veterans’ Association. The association had notified the Government that the Jewish Ex-Servicemen’s League of England had offered to aid emigration of German Jewish veterans to foreign countries.
The Hamburg Jewish Community was ordered “to clean out” no later than Sept. 30 one of the oldest Jewish cemeteries in the city and turn the grounds over to the State. Reinterment will take place in the Jewish cemetery in Ohlsdorf, a Hamburg suburb. The Hamburg cemetery was founded in 1711.
An “Aryan” widow was deprived today of the right to raise her own children under the ruling of a Torgau court. On the basis of the Nuremberg anti-Jewish decrees, the court ruled her unfit to raise children because she had “maintained intimate relations with a Jew” until 1935.
The Reich Chamber of Law prohibited courts of honor from basing decisions on commentaries written by Jews.
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