The much-debated question of what will become of approximately 2,000,000 Germans who despite being non-Jews are classified as non-Aryans by Hitler and treated like Jews because one of their grandparents was Semitic, was culminated today in the organization of a special “Reichsverband of Non-Aryan Christians.” The Reichverband, according to an announcement made by its leaders here, aims to organize all “victims” of the Nazis who are distantly related to Jews.
Representations will be made to the government later, it was said, with the hope that some of these non-Aryans will be reinstated into the good graces of the rulers of Germany, or at least be granted the privilege of having a distinction drawn between them and real Jews.
In order to become a member of the Reichsverband one must declare himself an “undivided German patriot” and whole-heartedly accept “the Socialist German national principle.”
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