A Berlin Labor Court ruled today that rooming in a Jewish-owned house was sufficient grounds for the dismissal of a municipal employe.
An “Aryan” girl was ordered dismissed from her city job because she was rooming in a Jewish-owned house. She said she had lived there since 1933, but the court ruled that an employe of the State “must also obey the Nazi principles of the State, which include the duty of dissolving all close connections with the Jewish people.”
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