Without mentioning the word “Jew” even once, the Reich’s Minister of Labor, Franz Seldte, former leader of the “coordinated” Stahlhelm, issued a circular yesterday addressed to all the German states urging that “all forthcoming local laws, ordinances and orders concerning political and economic life should be based primarily on the racial-biological principle.”
Minister Seldte explains in the circular that the racial principle is one of the most important in the National Socialist program. It is the will of the government, he declared, that this principle be laid as the basis for the economic and political development of Germany.
The Thuringian government issued instructions that all government orders should be placed through the Chamber of Artisans from which the Jews have been expelled.
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