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Gestapo Bans Chanukah Sermons in German

December 7, 1936
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The Gestapo (State secret police) today notified synagogues that sermons in connection with the Jewish festival of Chanukah, beginning Dec. 9, must not be in the German language, as had been the custom of Liberal synagogues.

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