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‘abraham’ Barred As Name for Provinces’ Aryans

October 18, 1933
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Aryan children will no longer be named Abraham, in the states of Mecklenburg, Pomerania and Schleswig-Holstein, the local churches decided.

Abraham was formerly a most popular name in these provinces, even in hundred per cent Aryan families, and was considered an honor. Among the old German families in Lower Saxonia, at least one member of every family carries this Biblical name.

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