Issue Number:111

Date: 09/21/1935

p. 2, c. 1

Nazi Prejudice Against Jews Is Like Dixie's


NEW YORK - Dispatches from Germany during the last week indicated that Jews are being subjected to discriminations similar to those practiced agains the colored people in the Southern states of the United States.

A decree just issued by Bernhard Rust, Nazi minister of culture, orders that after 1936 "complete racial segregation of German pupils in all schools must be enforced."

But, whereas any person with a drop of colored blood is considered a colored person in the Southern states, Germans who have one quarter of Jewish blood will not be barred from the Nazi schools. The rule will be strictly enforced against whole Jews and half Jews.

Restrictions are also set up against Jewish doctors serving Germans. Posters in Munich warn women not to let Jewish doctors treat them. German lawyers who defend Jews will be barred from practice. Jewish children have been barred from the public schools.

In direct contrast to the German regulations is one from Russia, where all prejudice based on race has been outlawed. Hereafter, in Russia, there is to be no discrimination in the schools whatever. For a time, the children of the enemy classes of the present regime were restricted. The bars have now been lifted. In Moscow alone seventy four new large schools were built last year.