are sixteen years old and just beginning life of illegitimate birth.”
It asks, “why should the lives of these children be broken just because their parents did not live together for five years?”
The order declares that unless proof is forthcoming that the partners of a marriage between one of Jewish descent and a member of the German nobility lived together for five years, the marriage is to be declared void and the children of the marriage declared illegitimate.
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