Over six hundred Jewish lawyers lost their practice in Berlin by October 20, today’s press reveals, indicating also that further expulsions of Jewish lawyers are imminent. The authorities are apparently determined to reduce the number of Jewish lawyers to the proportion of the Jews in the general population, namely less than one per cent.
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