Nazis Introduce Nuremberg Laws in Norway, Bar Jewish Emigration

German authorities in Norway have officially in formed the chief rabbi of Oslo that the Nuremberg Laws are henceforth in force in Norway, it was reported here today.

Simultaneously the Nazi authorities issued an order prohibiting Jews from leaving the country. The order states no emigration permits will henceforth be issued to Jews.

Though the local population is demonstratively opposing the anti-Jewish orders, the chief of police in Oslo was forced by the Nazi administration to issue instructions to the theaters prohibiting production of plays written by Jews and Englishmen. On the other hand, the chief of police ordered the immediate removal of anti-Jewish inscriptions which appeared during the night on the doors and windows of Jewish stores.

Twenty-two Norwegians were arrested in Oslo as result of a melee which occurred when a number of Gestapo agents broke into the house of a Jewish merchant, Isaac Rubinstein, to arrest his son on the allegation that he sought to reach England as a volunteer. The boy’s mother began shouting and pleading for her son. Her pleas attracted some 100 Norwegian passers-by who started a “demonstration of sympathy,” trying to save the Jewish victim from the hands of the Gestapo agents. A clash developed, resulting in the arrest of 22 of the demonstrators.

A threat by the staff of the National Theater in Oslo to declare a strike if the Nazi administration insisted on the dismissal of the Jewish dancer, Tutta Lemkow, resulted in the withdrawal of the Propaganda Ministry’s order. Similarly, the staff of the Oslo Symphony Orchestra threatened a strike, prevented the dismissal of Ernst Glaser, first violinist; Robert Lewin, pianist, and Jules de Vries, a half-Jewish saxophonist.