Chancellor Hitler’s Voelkischer Beobachter, chief organ of the Nazi Party, today warned Jews with German surnames to change them to Jewish names or face the imposition of names by the Government. The Berlin paper said that the Jews “can be sure that we will not be so accommodating as authorities of the liberal period, but that we will either give them back their old Jewish family names, which they before the emancipation period, or look up Old Testament records, which offer a big choice.”
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