A 53-year-old Jewish lawyer is serving a two-month jail sentence because, in defiance of the law for the protection of German blood, he permitted a 35-year old “Aryan” maid to boil potatoes in his home.
The trial revealed that the lawyer employed a full-time “Aryan” maid who was of legal age. Because this maid could not cook, the lawyer employed the younger woman to prepare his meals for him in her own home. The meals were then served to him by his regular maid. The evidence revealed, however, that from January to May, 1937, the younger woman “occasionally” boiled potatoes in the lawyer’s home. The defendant said that this happened not more often than once a month.
“This clearly constitutes violation of the blood law,” the court declared in its judgment. “It counts doubly against the defendant because he is a lawyer and should have known better.”
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