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Headline: German Jewry Is Outlawed By Reichstag
Sub-Headline: Limits Citizenship to Members of Germanic Race—Forbids Aryan-Non Aryan Marriages — Swastika Is Adopted as Nazi Emblem

Publication Date: Monday, September 16, 1935
Historical Event: Hitler Announces Nuremberg Race Laws
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Article Type: News Article
Newspaper: The Burlington Free Press
Location: Burlington, Vermont
Page Section and Number: 1
Author/Byline: AP
Article Text: NURNBERG, Germany, Sept. 15. (AP)—Adolf Hitler's Reichstag, stung by the strictures of a New York magistrate against the Nazi emblem, tonight pronounced the swastika to be the Reich's sole flag, hurled defiance to Jews throughout the world and limited German citizenship to members of the Germanic race.

The specially summoned law-makers acted after their Fuehrer, in a fiery mood, had opened Reichstag session with a bitter attack on Lithuanians for their alleged treatment of Germans in the Memel territory, and had called upon the solons to approve three new laws.

Der Fuehrer and his legislators permitted Jews to continue as German subjects but forbade them to fly any flag save the blue and white Zionist emblem.

Hitler and the Reichstag also forbade intermarriage between Aryans and non-Aryans and provided for punishment for sexual relations between the two.

They also forbade Jews to engage Aryan domestic servants under the age of 54 years.

Hitler charged Lithuania with responsibility for events in Memel which, he said, continued the seed of trouble. Then he made known his refusal to allow Germany to be drawn into any international controversy in which she is not directly involved.

(The Memel territory belonged to Germany, before the World War. Under the Versailles the treaty the Allies administered the territory for three years. The Lithuanians seized Memel Jan. 15, 1923, by a surprise attack. A convention was signed by the powers in May, 1924, defining the Memel territory as a unit within the sovereignty of Lithuania, with a governor to be appointed by the President of the Lithuanian Republic)

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