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GERMAN JEWRY’S Steps to Extermination The Nazis Upheld Their Nation’s Reputation for Thoroughness and System in Their Jewish Persecu tions. (From Discrimination to Murder: New York Lists 431 Nazis Statutes) By SAM MILLER BONN In their journey through the mil- lenia, thi• Jewish people have en countered different types of perse cution. The Nazi brand of anti- Semitism was distinguished from the rest by its systematic and very German thoroughness, by its con cern with retaining, at least within Germany herself, the trappings of pseudo-legality and the adminis trative punctilio of the bureaucratic state. These peculiarities of the Nazis’ Jew - hating mania are reflected in a chilling work just published by the major Jewish weekly in this country, Duesseldorf's “Allgemeine Wochenzeitung.” Between the cov ers of a slim book, the late Dr. Bruno Blau has gathered together no less than 431 anti-Jewish laws, decrees and ordinances applying to Germany proper. Additional discriminatory mea sures enacted by Nazi officialdom m the countries overrun by Ger many before and during the war probably exceed 2,000 in number. Dr. Blau was preparing to enumer ate them in a companion volume when he died last summer in his 74th year. Prior to Hitler he had been an attorney and sociologist in Berlin , \V here he headed the “Of fice for Jewish Statistics” and also edited the German-language "Jour nal for Jewish Demography and Statistics.” Few men know the subject as Dr. Blau did. He had been one of the tiny band of Jews who experi enced all the horrors of the Nazi regime, from Hitler’s years of tri umph to his apocalyptic end, right in Berlin itself — and lived to tell about it. With the true researcher’s passion for amassing records, he collected material even in the war time capital of the German Reich. For a period after the liberation, he served as a research consultant in New York to the Yiddish Scien tific Institute (YIVO). The compilation he assembled so painstakingly has now been brought out under the title “Das Ausnah- merecht fuer die Juden in Deutsch land 1933-1945.” It is of signific ance not for the historical record alone, but also when individual Nazi victims must establish the fact that they were persecuted in a given manner, so as to qualify for the hedged-about indemnifica tion payments that are being made by Germany. In view of the book’s value for this purpose, the United Restitution Organization has given its backing to the publica tion. The Inexoriable Progression On the first few pages, we find the initial discriminatory legal steps that, because the Nazi leader ship was apprehensive about the possible worldwide repercussions, were still somewhat subdued in nature. A case in point is the April 1933 "Law for the Restoration of a Professional Civil Service,” which provided for the dismissal ol gov ernment employees "not of Aryan descent,” but granted them full pensions and, furthermore, made exceptions for those appointed pri or to the first World War and for those who had seen combat service in the German army. Due to such “reasonableness,” this type of leg islation was accepted with equan imity by many people, within and outside Germany, who should have known better. Once the principle of equality before the law was abridged and human dignity violated the Nazi chieftains sat back to await the re action. When they concluded that protests were no more than per functory, they stepped up the tem po and harshness of persecution. Almost always however, they wrapped their measures in a cloak of technical “legality.” A straight line connects two leg islative enactments, one bearing the date of April 21, 1933, and the sec ond that of April 21, 1943. The earlier decree prohibits shehitah, the Jewish ritual method of slaugh tering cattle; it is couched in such superficially innocuous terms of “preventing cruelty to animals” that Bonn officials consider it as still valid today, temporarily and regrettably suspended due to Allied pressure. This anti-shehitah bill was sign ed by Hitler himself and entered into force just two months after his accession to power. Ten years lat er to the day, the Reich Ministry of Justic issued a circular bearing the reference numbers 4410 b V s I 379/43 g. It starts out with a fa miliar legislative formula, viz. “pursuant to the regulations for Visit us in our NEW LOCATION LEE DRUG COMPANY Free Delivery Dial HE. 6-1556 121 Oglethorpe Ave. Albany, Ga. 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