The Supreme Court of Germany ruled today that contracts can be cancelled if their fulfillment is considered not in the interest of the German people.
The ruling was handed down in cancelling a lease granted by the City of Berlin in 1925 to Isador Neumann on a large tract of land on which a cinema was subsequently built.
Holding that fulfillment of the agreement is now impossible, the court ruled that “service to the nation is at present superior to law.”
Propaganda Minister Goebbels’ Der Angriff hailed the decision as bringing an end to “Jewish speculation.” It expressed regrets that “it took more than two years for the German people to show this Hebrew that he no longer lives in the year 1925.”
Two thirds of the clothing industry is still in the hands of Jews, the Angriff complained, blaming the moving of skilled workers to other countries by Jewish firms for the difficulty in bringing the industry to normalcy.
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