Canonical Law
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Nazi Measure
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Prohibition of intermarriage and of sexual intercourse between Christians
and Jews, Synod of Elvira, A.D. 306.
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Law
for the Protection of German Blood and Honor, September 15, 1935 (RGB1 I,
1146).
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Jews and Christians not permitted to eat together, Synod of Elvira, 306.
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Jews barred from dining cars (Transport Minister to Interior Minister,
December 30, 1939, Document NG-3995).
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Jews not allowed to hold public office, Synod of Clermont, 535.
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Law
for the Reestablishment of the Professional Civil Service, April 7, 1933
(RGB1 I, 175).
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Jews not allowed to employ Christian servants or possess Christian slaves,
third Synod of Orleans, 538.
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Law
for the Protection of German Blood and Honor, September 15, 1935 (RGB1 I,
1146).
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Jews not permitted to show themselves in the streets during Passion Week,
third Synod of Orleans, 538.
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Decree authorizing local authorities to bar Jews from the streets on certain
days (i.e., Nazi holidays), December 3, 1933 (RGB1 I, 1676).
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Burning of the Talmud and other books, 12th Synod of Toledo, 681.
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Book burnings in Nazi Germany.
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Christians not permitted to patronize Jewish doctors, Trulanic Synod, 692.
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Decree of July 25, 1938 (RGB1, I, 969).
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Christians not permitted to live in Jewish homes, Synod of Narbonne, 1050.
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Directive by Göring providing for concentration of Jews in houses, December
28, 1938 (Bormann to Rosenberg, January 17, 1939, PS-69).
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Jews obliged to pay taxes for support of church to the same extent as
Christians, Synod of Gerona, 1078.
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The
“Sozialausgleichsabgabe” which provided that Jews pay a special income tax
in lieu of donations for Party purposes imposed on Nazis, December 24, 1940
(RGB1 I, 1666).
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Prohibition of Sunday work, Synod of Szabolcs, 1092.
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N/A.
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Jews not permitted to be plaintiffs, or witnesses against Christians in the
courts, 3rd Lateran Council, 1179, Canon 26.
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Proposal by the Party Chancellery that Jews not be permitted to institute
civil suits, September 9, 1942 (Bormann to Justice Ministry, September 9,
1942, (NG-151).
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Jews not permitted to withhold inheritance from descendants who accepted
Christianity, 3rd Lateran Council, 1179, Canon 26.
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Decree empowering the Justice Ministry to void wills offending the “sound
judgment of the people,” July 31, 1938 (RGB1 I, 547).
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The
marking of Jewish clothes with a badge, 4th Lateran Council, 1215, Canon 68.
(Copied from the legislation by Caliph Omar II [634-44], who had decreed
that Christians wear blue belts and Jews, yellow belts.)
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Decree of September 1, 1941 (RGB1 I, 547).
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Construction of new synagogues prohibited, Council of Oxford, 1222.
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Destruction of synagogues in entire Reich, November 10, 1938 (Heydrich to
Göring, November 11, 1938, PS-3058).
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Christians not permitted to attend Jewish ceremonies, Synod of Vienna, 1267.
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Friendly relations with Jews prohibited, October 24, 1941 (Gestapo
directive, L-15).
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Jews not permitted to dispute with simple Christian people about the tenets
of the Catholic religion, Synod of Vienna, 1267.
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N/A.
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Compulsory ghettoes, Synod of Breslau, 1267.
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Order by Heydrich, September 21, 1939 (PS-3363).
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Christians not permitted to sell or rent real estate to Jews, Synod of Ofen,
1279.
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Decree providing for compulsory sale of Jewish real estate, December 3, 1938
(RGB1 I, 1709).
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Adoption by a Christian of the Jewish religion or return by a baptized Jew
to the Jewish religion defined as a heresy, Synod of Mainz, 1310.
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Adoption by a Christian of the Jewish religion places him in jeopardy of
being treated as a Jew. Decision by Oberlandesgericht Königsberg, 4th
Zivilsenat, June 26, 1942 (Die Judenfrage [Vertrauliche Beilage], November
1, 1942, pp. 82-83).
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Sale or transfer of church articles to Jews prohibited, Synod of Lavour,
1368.
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N/A.
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Jews not permitted to act as agents in the conclusion of contracts between
Christians, especially marriage contracts, Council of Basel, 1434, Sessio
XIX.
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Decree of July 6, 1938, providing for liquidation of Jewish real estate
agencies, brokerage agencies, and marriage agencies catering to non-Jews
(RGB1 I, 823).
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Jews not permitted to obtain academic degrees, Council of Basel, 1434,
Sessio XIX.
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Law
against Overcrowding of German Schools and Universities, April 25, 1933
(RGB1 I, 225).
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