Word: jewishness
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Once more last week police patrols and armed bands of Nazis raided a Jewish quarter in Berlin. Streets were closed, pedestrians stopped, houses searched...
...last week spoke Adolf Hitler before a meeting of the German Medical Federation. Under his hand Germany proceeded openly to reduce her Jewish inhabitants to the social and political position occupied by Negroes in the southern U. S. and Orientals in the West...
Open boycotting and outbursts of physical violence dwindled, but of the 2,000 Jewish lawyers in Berlin. Prussia gave only 35 license to practice. The drive to drive Jews from the professions spread to medicine, education, the arts. The rectors of the Universities of Frankfort and Brunswick were arrested last week. Officials of the Berlin municipal insurance system announced that they would pay the bills of no Jewish physicians rendered after April 1. Because they signed an official protest against persecution of Jewish musicians in Germany, German radio stations were ordered to bar all records or compositions by Arturo Toscanini...
Finally with a glimmer of moderation Hitler issued a new decree laying down the nation-wide rules for Jewish lawyers. Like the law covering Government employes, it gave full rights to pre-War Jewish lawyers who had fought in the War, were not Communists and whose fathers or sons died in the War. All others were subject to disbarment. Annulling all State laws, it stepped up the total of practising Berlin lawyers from 35 to 1,000. One Jewish grandparent makes a Jew in Germany...
Rotter. The Rotter Brothers, Jewish theatre owners and musicomedy producers, once most prosperous, now bankrupt, fled Berlin in January. In the Principality of Liechtenstein last week they were ambushed by six young Germans, apparently Nazis. Alfred Rotter and his wife jumped over a cliff to death to avoid kidnapping. Franz Rotter, handcuffed, sprang from the kidnappers' car, broke his shoulder...