Every important Nazi newspaper, including the Voelkischer Beobachter, Hitler’s personal property and chief organ of the Nazi party, emphasized today that the regulatory decrees implementing the Nuremberg laws are only part of the regulations which will ultimately define the status of Jews in commerce, medicine, dentistry and law.
Meanwhile, the regulations which were to have clarified the Jewish position, in at least two fields have produced nothing but confusion. The confusion is chiefly the result of the regulations classifying “non-Aryans” with Jews, Many “non-Aryan” maid servants, since they are classified as Jews, do not know whether they may remain in Jewish employ.
The marriage clauses also have produced confusion.
“Half-Aryans”, for example, are completely at a loss on the subject of marriage, since under the present regulations it appears they can marry neither Jews nor non-Jews.
A Federal Court here today reversed the decision of a lower court by which an actress was granted a divorce on the grounds that, after having been married to him for twenty years she suddenly discovered he was a Jew. The Federal Court ruled that she could not possibly have been ignorant of his Jewishness.
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