Children of Jewish women who married German noblemen, and who last week were declared illegitimate and deprived of their titles, were today reinstated and their titles restored. This action by the German authorities followed severe criticism directed against the law.
This important revision was announced by the Reichsanzeiger, which explained that only children born previous to marriage by a parent into the nobility would not be recognized as nobles.
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