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Headline: Hitler Outlaws German Jewery
Sub-Headline: Sets Up Nazi Swastika As Official Flag

Publication Date: Monday, September 16, 1935
Historical Event: Hitler Announces Nuremberg Race Laws
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Article Type: News Article
Newspaper: The Des Moines Register
Location: Des Moines, Iowa
Page Section and Number: 1
Author/Byline: --
Article Text: (More Foreign News on Page 2.)
NURNBERG, GERMANY — Chancellor Hitler Sunday whipped through the German reichstag three drastic new laws, banning marriages of "Germans and Jews" under threat of prison, limiting citizenship to members of the Germanic race, and proclaiming the Nazi swastika Germany's official flag.

Chancellor Hitler, addressing the specially convened reichstag at the Nazi party congress here, at same time proclaimed Germany's

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Adolf Hitter.
Rushed Drastic Laws.

"desire for peace," attacked Lithuanians for their alleged mistreatment of Germans in the Memel territory, and lashed at world Jewry for anti-Nazi agitation. He ridiculed reports Germany is preparing for an eventual war with Russia, France or Austria.

"Mixed Marriages."
Of the three laws adopted by the reichstag, under the whiplash of Hitler's address and Prussian Premier Hermann Wilhelm Goerling's complete control of the Nazi legislative body, by far the most important were those dealing with the swastika flag and "mixed marriages."

Linking Nazi measures with the liner Bremen riots in New York in July, and the freeing of five of six men then arrested by Magistrate Louis F. Brodsky of New York, whose reference to the swastika as a "pirate flag" resulted in apologies Saturday by Secretary of State Hull, Chancellor Hitler declared.

"The activity of Jewish elements in mutual provocation by nations is proved by the insult to the German flag which has been straightened out by the statement of the American government.

"Pirate Flag."
"Our government has determined to prevent such incidents in Germany in the future. Our government desires to solve this problem once and for all through legal settlement, thereby creating tolerable relations between the German people and Jews."

After Hitler's direct reference to the Bremen flag incident, General Goering in explaining the new laws to the reichstag indirectly referred to Magistrate Brodsky's "pirate flag" comment with an

Hitler.
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History Unfolded Contributor: Steven B.
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