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‘aryan-jewish’ Union Undesirable, Reich Court Grants Divorce

March 5, 1934
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In granting a divorce in a case involving an “Aryan-Jewish” marriage, the Oberlandsgericht, the German Supreme Court, declared that while “Aryan legislation” does not regulate this question, a divorce is necessary “because ‘Aryan-Jewish’ marriages are not only undesirable, but pernicious, unnatural and monstrous.”

In a number of cases since the advent of the Nazis, German courts have granted divorces where there was no allegation other than that one of the parties was “Aryan” and the other “non-Aryan.”

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