The introduction of yellow books for the Jews is recommended at length in the Deutsche Nachrichten which demands that these yellow books contain not only the complete registers of all Jewish families but also of families in which intermarriage with Jews has taken place.
It urges that a Jewish bureau be established as soon as possible to introduce the yellow books and to search the church records for every case of conversion or intermarriage, revealing those still undisclosed. It suggests that every German applicant for a marriage permit should also have to inform the Jewish bureau in order to establish whether either of the parties is of Jewish origin.
Prohibition of intermarriages, the paper sagely observes, is useless, “because love cannot be ruled by regulations,” but a German marrying a Jew should be warned his name will be registered in the yellow book as soon as he is married and that his children will be treated as Jews.
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