Kosher & Kultur!

Big-eyed with fear a Jewish butcher named Ludwig Frohwein was hustled into court at Weisbaden last week to confess that he had butchered a steer in kosher fashion.

By decree of Chancellor Hitler no kosher meat may be prepared in Germany. It can only be imported, under restrictions so drastic that German rabbis are now urging vegetarianism as the only salvation of the Fatherland's 200,000 Orthodox Jews. Germany's remaining 350,000 Jews are rated nonOrthodox. Up to last week anti-kosher arrests had all been for the crime of smuggling in kosher meat illegally. Butcher Frohwein was the first to be arrested for actual kosher butchery.

"Yours is a grave offense, Frohwein." said the Nazi judge. "You have placed an alien law, namely the Talmud, above German law. Since this is a first offense, I sentence you to two months' imprisonment."

Meanwhile the Ministry of Justice was in chaos at Berlin as weary German jurists who had scarcely slept for weeks rushed to completion the "Code Hitler," a complete new body of penal law, theoretically effective on New Year's Day.

"Race stamps this code," rumbled Nazi Codifier Dr. Helmuth Nicolai. "Our whole new legal system is constructed on the cornerstone of race. There are two kinds of Justice. The Nordic or Teutonic kind is something one feels.

"The conscience of the racially pure Teuton tells him what is right and what is wrong. The Oriental has no conscience, being of mixed race. He does not perceive what is right as clearly as does the German. That is why the Oriental is obliged to learn law, to read and to write it. We are again binding Germany to the age-old heritage of RACIALISM."

What this heritage is Dr. Nicolai and his corps of Nazi savants feel they have discovered by rummaging in Berlin's State Library through ancient compilations of Teutonic customs such as the 700-year-old Sachsenspiegel.

Slightly nervous as to how the Code Hitler will turn out seemed Commissar for Justice Dr. Hans Frank last week. Instead of insisting with most Nazis that the new code will be far superior to any ever produced before Dr. Frank gravely said: "Roman law was undoubtedly a great cultural achievement on the part of the Roman people, but I am certain that the new German law, based on Kultur und Rasse* will be at least as good."

More legal Naziisms:

P: Fifteen Jews were arrested at Rottach for listening to what the arresting Storm Troops said was a subversive radio broadcast from Moscow.

P: In Hamburg the largest society of German lawyers, Deutscher Anwaltverein (3,000 Jews, 12.000 Gentiles), voted its own dissolution "unanimously."

Announced the chairman: "All memberships, except those which have been held by Jews, will be transferred to the National Socialist lawyers association," a closed shop for Gentiles only.

P: In Weiden two brownshirts, relying on their Teutonic consciences, seized a widow, accused her of obtaining larger dole payments than were her due, marched her around Weiden with a placard upon her breast: "I have shamelessly deceived the Ministry of Interior."

*Culture and Race.

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