The Nazi Party will not recognize Jews in Germany as a national minority but only as guests, according to a declaration issued by the party making clear its official attitude to the new ghetto laws passed last Sunday by the Reichstag.
“The Jew is a guest in Germany just like other non-Jewish aliens,” the declaration states. “He is, however, a guest in a special sense of the word because he has no territory of his own and thus belongs numerically in the category of minority. But Jews are not a minority in the national sense because, while other national minorities enjoy equal rights, the Jews are excluded from such rights and are under the alien law.”
The Reichstag law “for the protection of German blood and German honor” was formulated by Julius Streicher, leading anti-Semite and publisher of the pornographic anti-Semitic weekly, Der Stuermer, it was disclosed tonight by Dr. Gutt, Ministerial Director and Commander of the Schutz Staffel, Hitler’s personal bodyguard.
In an address before the Berlin State Medical Academy, Dr. Gutt announced that the Reich cabinet will soon pass a new medical law, as was previously reported by the Jewish Telegraphic Agency.
The proposed law will forbid all Jewish doctors who are still permitted to practice, to treat unmarried “Aryan” women. Jewish doctors will also be forbidden to treat married “Aryan” women unless the latter submit written confirmation of their husband’s willingness to have them treated by Jews.
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