No Jewish students will be allowed in the colleges of Baden and Dresden, in accordance with the latest measures taken by the Nazi Minister of Education. Decrees of unprecedented stringency were promulgated at various educational centers of the Reich, tending to shut Jews out of the colleges, and to destroy Jewish contributions to science and art.
The State Minister of Education of Baden today issued a decree banning non-Aryan students from admission to any of the centers of higher education in the province.
In Dresden, the Commissar of Education went even further, and ordered that the prohibition should also affect non-Aryan students already in attendance at the University. These students shall be refused re-admission for the new term. This decree will abruptly terminate the courses of any Jewish students at the University of Dresden. No new applications from non-Aryan students are to be granted.
Rigorous application of the numerus clausus limiting Jewish enrollment in universities strictly to the Jewish proportion of the population has been ordered in Cassel. Jewish students already in attendance at the University are not, however, affected by this decree.
Gottfried Feder, newly appointed Nazi head of the national Technical Society, has demanded the removal of all non-Aryan engineers from positions where their influence or activity might be detrimental to German science.
What he calls the pernicious influence of the Jews in engineering and scientific circles is cited by Herr Feder as the cause of this act.
Meanwhile, extensive preparations are being made everywhere for the general burning of Jewish books set for May 10, Many communities have anticipated the event, and already consigned works of Jewish authorship to the flames. The students of the University of Kiel have collected two thousand volumes, mostly of a non-political nature, in preparation for the bonfire. Scientific and literary books are in preponderance. Reading libraries at many other universities have prohibited the loaning of books of Jewish authorship to students.
The works of Jacob Wassermann, Lion Feuchtwanger, Arnold and Stefan Zweig, and of the non-Jews Emile Zola, and Thomas and Heinrich Mann were among the books seized by storm-troopers in Breslau bookshops, and condemned as unfit for the Aryan mind.
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