All German Jews were organized by Government decree today into a “National Jewish Association,” virtually a separate community within the Reich, responsible for its own charities and with an educational system designed to facilitate Jewish emigration.
The Association, under the supervision of the Interior Ministry, will take care of all indigent Jews and will receive no funds from other Reich agencies for that purpose.
Jewish students will be permitted to attend only association schools, which will operate under academic rules in force throughout Germany, but will stress occupational training likely to be useful to emigrants. The Association will train its own teachers.
Foreign Jews living in the Reich may be admitted to the schools. No compensation will be paid for losses to Jews growing out of readjustments necessary in conforming to the decree.
German newspapers tonight commented on the Government’s “magnanimous” gesture in allowing the Jews to reestablish their own schools.
“The new ordinance,” observed the Nazi party organ Voelkischer Beobachter, “shows how ready Germany is, in spite of bad experiences with the Jews, to let the act of separation be carried out without friction. The National Socialist goal is still the departure of all Jews from the Reich. We do not attach the slightest value to Jews. If we once more accord them our attention, it is not to provide a new basis for their affairs, but to speed up their emigration.”
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