Authorities today dissolved the Bavarian Jewish Sports Association, the only Jewish sports group permitted to exist.
The reason assigned for the promulgation of the order was that “other Jewish organizations are hiding behind the Sports Association.”
The order emphasized that all activities of the Jewish sports group are completely prohibited.
The Bavarian Jewish Sports Association was formed on February 19, with the full permission of the Nazi regime, after the dissolution of the Maccabi and Jewish ex-soldiers’ sports groups.
The dissolution was ordered by the Bavarian government.
Permission was granted to form the new organization on the following basis:
The officials of the Jewish sports group were to be appointed by the government commissar for sports; the officials were to appear every first and third Wednesday in each month before the commissar in Munich to deliver a report on their activities, and the new group could only accept individual members of the dissolved organizations.
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