A program to completely purge the German juridical system of Jewish influences, drawn up by Dr. Hans Frank, Nazi Commissar of Justice, was announced yesterday at the opening session of a two-day conference on the “Jew in Jurisprudence” held at the German Law Front House.
Dr. Frank’s program follows:
1- No Jew will be allowed in the future to be a spokesman for German law.
2- German justice will be reserved only for German ‘Aryans’ as defined by the Nuremberg laws.
3- Publishers will not be permitted to issue new editions of law books written by Jews.
4- Law books written by Jews will be removed from all libraries and transferred to special anti-Jewish institutes, where they will be used to expose the “evil influence” of Jews.
5- German lawyers must abstain from quoting from Jewish legal authorities, except when the quotations are intended to discredit Jews and the Jewish mentality.
6- Law professors must not adhere to the “pure truth” but give preference to Nazi teachings in order to help the racial theory, remembering that “no more science for the sake of science exists in Germany.”
The conference was under the chairmanship of Prof. Carl Schmidt, State Councillor for Justice, who is credited with having drafted the Nuremberg Laws.
Opening yesterday’s session, Dr. Schmidt paid tribute to the “great and glorious fight which Julius Streicher (Franconia’s Governor and high priest of German anti-Semitism) is conducting against the Jews.
In an address broadcast throughout the country, he asserted that the Jews had invaded the German spiritual world, “not only by means of conversions, but also through influencing German jurisprudence by insinuating themselves in German legal life for at least a century.”
The purpose of the conference, he declared, was to root out of jurisprudence all writings and commentaries by Jews of their descendants.
Thousands of German lawyers, he charged, had been influenced to think “in the Jewish way” because their professors were Jews and their textbooks were by Jews.
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