Reich Minister of the Interior Wilhelm Frick today ordered all illegitimately born employees of state and municipal institutions to be considered as being of Jewish descent. He directed their immediate dismissal unless they can prove that their fathers were Aryans. The minister also ordered that those whose names sound Jewish be compelled to prove that their grandparents were Aryans.
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