All remaining Jewish judges and lawyers were thrown out of the German courts today. Among them was Chief Justice Kurt Soelling.
Soelling, originally Seligman, recently aroused Jewish indignation because, although brought up by his uncle, a rabbi of Mannheim, was converted and became a member of the Nazis and one of the worst of German anti-Semites. When the Nazis assumed power, he was one of the first to take the course of degrading Jewish judges from the Criminal to the Civil Courts.
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