Nazi Commissioner of Berlin Asks District Mayors to Cancel Contracts with Jewish Doctors

Returning to the subject of the elimination of Jewish medical men from public institutions, the “Voelkischer Beobachter”, one of the Nazi organs, announces that the State Commissioner Lippert of Berlin, one of the most notorious of the Nazi leaders, last week ordered the district Mayors of Berlin to cancel their contracts with the Jewish doctors employed at the municipal hospitals. This announcement tends to suggest that Commissioner Lippert’s statement, previously reported, that the Jewish doctors, who are under contract, would be dispensed with only as their contracts expired, was merely an example of the Nazi practice of issuing statements merely for public consumption. The “Beobachter” thus confirms the contrary report that even the Jewish medical men under contract, are being dismissed.

Commenting also on the introduction of a numerus clausus into the Breslau courts, according to which no more than 17 Jews will be allowed to practice in the Breslau courts, the “Beobachter” says that the Berlin courts, too, are swarming with more Jews than the Krakau ghetto. “How long,” it asks, “shall the judiciary be allowed to remain a new Jerusalem? We must sweep them away with an iron broom!”

This and similar statements in the Nazi press point clearly to a resolve to clear the legal profession of all Jews. Indeed, the Berlin “Montagspost” publishes details of the Nazi plan in this connection, according to which from the beginning of April all Jewish judges are to be expelled from the Criminal Court, the Summary Court, the Juvenile Court, and the First Berlin District Court.