Discriminatory Decrees Against the Jews
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2. DISCRIMINATORY DECREES AGAINST JEWS
Jewish immigrants were denaturalized (1933 Reichsgesetzblatt, Part I, page 480, signed by
Frick and Neurath).
Native Jews were precluded from citizenship (1935 Reichsgesetzblatt, Part I, page 1146, signed
by Frick).
Jews were forbidden to live in marriage or to have extramarital relations with persons of German
blood (1935 Reichsgesetzblatt, Part I, page 1146, signed by Frick and Hess).
Jews were denied the right to vote (1936 Reichsgesetzblatt, Part I, page 133, signed by Frick).
Jews were denied the right to hold public office or civil service
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positions (1933 Reichsgesetzblatt, Part I, page 277, signed by Frick) .
Jews were relegated to an inferior status by the denial of common privileges and freedoms.
Thus, they were denied access to certain city areas, sidewalks, transportation, places of
amusement, restaurants (1938 Reichsgesetzblatt, Part I, page 1676).
Progressively, more and more stringent measures were applied, even to the denial of private
pursuits. They were excluded from the practice of dentistry (1939 Reichsgesetzblatt, Part I,
page 47, signed by Hess).
The practice of law was denied to them (1938 Reichsgesetzblatt, Part I, page 1403, signed by
Frick and Hess).
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The practice of medicine was forbidden them (1938 Reichsgesetzblatt, Part I, page 969, signed
by Frick and Hess).
They were denied employment by press and radio ( 1933 Reichsgesetzblatt, Part I, page 661).
They were excluded from stock exchanges and stock brokerage 1934 Reichsgesetzblatt, Part I,
page 661).
They were excluded from farming ( 1933 Reichsgesetzblatt, , Part I, page 685).
In 1938 they were excluded from business in general and from the economic life of Germany
(1938 Reichsgesetzblatt, Part I, Page 1580, signed by Goering).
The Jews were also forced to pay discriminatory taxes and huge atonement fines. Their homes,
bank accounts, real estate, and intangibles were expropriated.
A report of a conference under the chairmanship of Goering, and attended by Funk, among
others, which was held at 11 clock on 12 November 1918 at the Reich Ministry for Air, quotes
Goering as saying:
"One more question, gentlemen, what would you think the situation would be if I'd announced
today that Jewry shall have to contribute this one billion as a punishment."
"I shall choose the wording this way that German Jewry shall, as punishment for their
abominable crimes, etc., etc., have to make a contribution of one billion; that'll work. The pigs
won't commit another murder. I'd like to say again that I would not like to be a Jew in Germany."
(1816-PS)
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Following these whimsical remarks a decree was issued over the signature of Goering, fining
German Jews the sum of one billion Reichsmarks (1938 Reichsgesetzblatt, Part I, page 1579
dated 12 November 1938, signed by Goering).
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Similar decrees are contained in 1939 Reichsgesetzblatt, Part I, page 282, signed by Goering;
and in 1941 Reichsgesetzblatt, Part I, page 722, signed by Frick and Bormann.
Finally, in 1943, the Jews were placed beyond the protection of any judicial process by a decree
signed by Bormann and Frick, among others; the police were made the sole arbiters of
punishment and death (1943 Reichsgesetzblatt, Part I, page 372, signed by Frick and
Bormann.)